Knight Chair in Race and Journalism, Howard University; Domestic Correspondent, The New York Times Magazine; Creator, 1619 Project
Nikole Hannah-Jones is the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the 1619 Project and a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine investigating racial inequality and injustice—earning a MacArthur Fellowship, a Peabody Award, George Polk Awards, and National Magazine Awards.
Hannah-Jones is the Knight Chair in Race and Journalism at Howard University and Founder of the Center for Journalism & Democracy, the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, and the 1619 Freedom School. She holds a Master of Arts in Mass Communication from UNC at Chapel Hill and a Bachelor of Arts in History and African American studies from the University of Notre Dame.