Nikole Hannah-Jones is the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the 1619 Project and a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine. Her 1619 Project is now a six-part docu series on Hulu. Hannah-Jones has spent her career investigating racial inequality and injustice, and her reporting has earned her numerous awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship “Genius” grant.
She serves as the Knight Chair of Race and Journalism at Howard University, where she founded the Center for Journalism & Democracy, and is the co-founder of the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting. In 2022 she opened the1619 Freedom School, a free, after school literacy program in her hometown of Waterloo, Iowa.
Hannah-Jones holds a Master of Arts in Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and earned her Bachelor of Arts in History and African-American studies from the University of Notre Dame.