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Farai Chideya

Multimedia Journalist & Commentator

Farai Chideya

Farai Chideya

Multimedia Journalist & Commentator

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New York, NY, USA
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Farai Chideya Biography

Farai Chideya is CEO and host of “Our Body Politic,” a nationally syndicated public radio show, podcast, and insights brand that centers Black women and women of color. She’s the author of six books, both fiction and nonfiction, most recently "The Episodic Career." A longtime journalist, Chideya has worked for FivethirtyEight, NPR, CNN, and ABC News, and has covered political extremists for a quarter century and every presidential election since 1996.

A public speaker who works on media equity, she is also a program officer focusing on journalism with the Ford Foundation’s Creativity and Free Expression team. From 2012 to 2016, Chideya was a distinguished writer in residence at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. Chideya also serves as an advisor to several nonprofits and for-profit startups.

Chideya has honed her powerful speaking skills over the course of her twenty years in journalism. For her, lectures are not just a chance to speak, but also to listen, to engage, share and learn. Her speeches include deep-dives into issues such as generational divides in use of mobile technology, US politics, or African-American history and culture, as well as motivational speeches about finding your right livelihood and living with integrity in a world that often rewards expediency. She can bring up issues that people generally don’t want to talk about in a way that encourages openness and new understandings within communities, campuses and workplaces.

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Farai Chideya Speaking Topics

  • Possibility Speaks: Looking at the Near Future With Optimistic Clarity

    In her 25 years as a journalist and social analyst, Farai Chideya has often anticipated technological and societal shifts that affect us today, from the rise of online communities in the 1980s that presaged today's social media; to the shift from a black-white axis of race in America to a multiracial contemporary reality. For any business, institution, or even individual, being able to cultivate a sense of realistic "near-futurism" is key to remaining engaged in issues without being bogged down with them. Chideya explains how to filter the barrage of data that comes to us every day via media, to search out reliable sources, and to develop a key ability to follow trend lines that point us to more optimistic and healthy outcomes, be they entrepreneurial or personal.

  • Women's Empowerment: Loving Your Inner "Impostor"

    Like so many high-achieving women, Farai Chideya has struggled with believing that she was deserving of the gifts the world gave her. At 25, she was a political analyst on CNN, a book author, and one of the first bloggers in the world. As she progressed to even more successes, she privately dealt with struggles including the eating disorder bulimia and a fruitful but initially painful reunion with her estranged father. Now in her forties, Chideya has learned skills that allow her to accept and embrace her whole self. Successful women are prone to the "impostor syndrome," a psychological disorder which makes us question if we're good enough for our success. Chideya's message -• to love your inner "impostor," thus breaking the cycle of self-fear -• resonates with women of all ages and stages.

  • Embracing the Global "We"

    As the daughter of an African father and an American mother -• a mother who had served in Morocco in the Peace Corps before marrying and starting a family -• Farai Chideya understood the world was vast from a very young age. Unfortunately, in a time of global economic turmoil, xenophobia within and between nations has become common. As someone who has visited 25+ countries and 45+ U.S. states, Chideya explains why the diversity within America's borders uniquely prepares us for global leadership, and how to proceed with a sense of optimism rather than fear about our increasingly global society -• connected not just by geopolitics, but by pop music, social media, and innovation.

  • What Happens to Equality When We're All Minorities?

    The Census predicts that a generation from now, America will have no racial majority. But that doesn't mean we will be an equal society. How do we keep our eyes on the prize of equality as we head towards a "post-majority" era? Using powerful visual and multimedia aids as well as a dynamic town-hall format, Chideya walks us through what it means to have a truly inclusive vision of equality that embraces the best of the American dream.

  • Working It: Winning On the Job Without Losing Yourself

    Could you imagine your job not only paying your bills, but enhancing your quality of life, and fitting in line with your ethical beliefs? It's not only possible; it's probable -• if you have the right tools. For many people, work seems like an emotional dead-end, or even worse, an ethical or health quagmire. Without sugar-coating the challenges facing Americans, Farai Chideya leads an economic overview and a searching self-analysis that can make you a winner not only financially, but in terms of life/work/family balance and health.

Farai Chideya Videos

  • P&P Live! Tanya Selvaratnam | ASSUME NOTHING with Farai Chideya
    P&P Live! Tanya Selvaratnam | ASSUME NOTHING with Farai Chideya
    Selvaratnam is in conversation with Farai Chideya, creator and host of Our Body Politic, a nationally syndicated public radio show centering Black...
  • TEDxBrooklyn :: Farai Chideya :: The Power of Hello - YouTube
    TEDxBrooklyn :: Farai Chideya :: The Power of Hello - YouTube
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Farai Chideya Books

  • The Episodic Career: How to Thrive at Work in the Age of Disruption
    The Episodic Career: How to Thrive at Work in the Age of Disruption
  • Trust: Reaching the 100 Million Missing Voters and Other Selected Essays
    Trust: Reaching the 100 Million Missing Voters and Other Selected Essays
  • The Color of Our Future : Race in the 21st Century
    The Color of Our Future : Race in the 21st Century
  • Don't Believe the Hype: Fighting Cultural Misinformation About African Americans
    Don't Believe the Hype: Fighting Cultural Misinformation About African Americans

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    Farai Chideya is a keynote speaker and industry expert whose speaking topics include Authors, Black History, Culture, Diversity Speakers, Entertainment, Influential Women, Inspirational, Journalism, Leadership Speakers, Literary, Media, Political Commentators, Political Speakers, Science and Technology, Social Media, Speakers by Industry, Technology Speakers, University Speakers, Women's Issues.

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Farai Chideya is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Possibility Speaks: Looking at the Near Future With Optimistic Clarity, Women's Empowerment: Loving Your Inner "Impostor", Embracing the Global "We", What Happens to Equality When We're All Minorities? and Working It: Winning On the Job Without Losing Yourself. The estimated speaking fee range to book Farai Chideya for your event is $20,000 - $30,000. Farai Chideya generally travels from New York, NY, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Donna Brazile, Majora Carter, Myrlie Evers-Williams, Patricia J. Williams and Sonia Nazario. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Farai Chideya for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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