Farai Chideya Biography
Farai Chideya is a novelist, multimedia journalist, and radio broadcaster from the United States. She created and hosts the podcast Our Body Politic, which will debut in September 2020.
Farai Chideya Age
Farai was born on 27 July 1969, in Baltimore, Maryland, the United States of America. He is 54 years old as of July 2023.
Farai Chideya Family- Education
Chideya was born in Baltimore, Maryland. Her mother was born in Baltimore, and her father was born in Zimbabwe. Harvard College awarded him a Bachelor of Arts in English literature. She received her Harvard diploma in 1990, magna cum laude.
Farai Chideya Career
Chideya was a member of The Immediate Gratification Players, an improv comedy troupe. She was named Harvard’s most distinguished alumnus in 2000. In addition to her current position as distinguished writer in residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University, she has been a professional in residence at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley and a visiting professor at the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California. Chideya is also the founder and president of PopandPolitics.com, one of the first pop culture websites in the United States. PopandPolitics.com served as a training ground for budding arts and culture journalists for 15 years.
Kiss the Sky, Chideya’s first novel, was published in May 2009 by Atria Books and follows the life of a black female rock singer attempting a professional comeback in New York. The novel is set just months before 9/11 and is inspired by the Black Rock Movement and the New York club scene. Chideya is also a member of The Finish Party writing collective and the author of three nonfiction books about race and politics, including Don’t Believe the Hype, The Color of Our Future, and Trust: Reaching the 100 Million Missing Voters. Chideya previously hosted the National Public Radio radio program News & Notes. She previously presented Your Call, a daily radio call-in show on KALW in San Francisco, California.
Chideya appears as a political analyst on CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, ABC News, Fox News, BET, and HBO in addition to her radio, video, and web journalism. In 2015, she began working as a senior writer for the website FiveThirtyEight, covering topics such as the 2016 presidential election. She began her career in journalism by working for Newsweek magazine, MTV News, the Oxygen network, and The Beehive, a non-profit community news website. She has since written for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, the Chicago Tribune Syndicate, The American Prospect, the San Francisco Chronicle, Time, O, The Oprah Magazine, Vibe, Spin, and Glamour, among others.
Chideya produced and aired One with Farai, a podcast for Public Radio International (PRI) from 2014 to 2015, in which she interviewed notable personalities with a variety of tales and viewpoints, including Melissa Harris-Perry, Urvashi Vaid, and Alec Ross. Chideya was awarded a Foreign Press Center scholarship in 2002, a Knight Foundation fellowship at Stanford University in 2001, and a Freedom Forum Media Studies Center grant in 1996. She has received several accolades for her work, including a special award from the Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association in 2008 for AIDS reporting; an Enterprise reporting award from the National Association of Black Journalists in 2007 for a piece on Skid Row; and a North Star Award for community coverage.
Her presentations on civic engagement, electoral politics, digital media, hip-hop, race, and politics have carried her to India, South Africa, and Alaska. Some of the universities where she has spoken include Syracuse University, the University of Southern California, the California African-American Museum in Los Angeles, M.I.T., the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, the University of Chicago, Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley, Louisiana State University, De Anza Community College, the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, Wellesley College, Chicago State University, Harvard University, and Smith College. Chideya was a judge for the American Mosaic Journalism Prize in 2023.
Farai Chideya Books
- Don’t Believe the Hype
- The Color of Our Future (1999)
- Trust: Reaching the 100 Million Missing Voters (2004)
- Kiss the Sky (2009)
- Innovating Women (2014)
- The Episodic Career
Farai Chideya Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of 2 million dollars.