Nikole Hannah-Jones
Investigative journalist
Nikole Hannah-Jones is an American investigative journalist and the creator of The 1619 Project. Since 2015 she has worked as a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine.
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American Born 1976 in Waterloo, United States
About Nikole Hannah-Jones
Nikole Hannah-Jones was born in 1976 in Waterloo, Iowa. She reports on racial inequality and civil rights in the United States, with particular attention to discrimination in American schools. Her work on The 1619 Project won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2017 and has also won a Peabody Award and two George Polk Awards. In 2016 she co-founded the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, which works to bring more journalists of color into reporting and editing roles. At Howard University she holds the first Knight Chair in Race and Journalism and founded the Center for Journalism and Democracy. She studied history and African-American studies at the University of Notre Dame and earned a master's degree in mass communication from the University of North Carolina.