Natalie Y. Moore
Award-winning journalist and author and senior lecturer and director of audio programming at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University
Natalie Y. Moore is an award-winning journalist and author and senior lecturer and director of audio programming at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
Her enterprise reporting has tackled race, housing, economic development, food injustice and violence. Moore’s work has been broadcast on the BBC, Marketplace and NPR’s Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition.
Moore’s latest book is The Billboard, a play about abortion, published by Haymarket Books. Her acclaimed book The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation received the 2016 Chicago Review of Books award for nonfiction and was Buzzfeed’s best nonfiction book of 2016. She is also co-author of The Almighty Black P Stone Nation: The Rise, Fall and Resurgence of an American Gang and Deconstructing Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation.
Moore contributed to “Southside,” a collection of stories about the criminal justice system in Chicago in collaboration with The Marshall Project/Amazon Original Stories in 2018. For the 100th anniversary of the 1919 Chicago riots, she co-wrote a 30-minute audio drama with Make Believe Association that aired on WBEZ. 16th Street Theater adapted portions of “The South Side” in 2019.
Moore is a 2021 USA Fellow. The Pulitzer Center named her a 2020 Richard C. Longworth Media Fellow for international reporting. In 2021, the University of Chicago Center for Effective Government (CEG), based at the U. of C.’s Harris School of Public Policy, welcomed her in its first cohort of Senior Practitioner Fellows.
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The First Eight: A Personal History of the Pioneering Black Congressmen Who Shaped a Nation
U.S. Congressman representing South Carolina's 6th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives
Award-winning journalist and author and senior lecturer and director of audio programming at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University
The Balancing Act: Creating Healthy Dependency and Connection Without Losing Yourself
Licensed therapist and New York Times bestselling author
Award-winning journalist and author and senior lecturer and director of audio programming at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University
Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me
Author and Founder of Well-Read Black Girl, an online platform and book club celebrating the works of Black women authors
Award-winning journalist and author and senior lecturer and director of audio programming at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University
The Civil Rights Act at 60: Is Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Dream for Chicago and the Country Attainable?
Executive Director of Metropolitan Peace Initiatives (MPI), a division of Metropolitan Family Services in Chicago
Martin Luther King, Jr., Centennial Professor in Religious Studies and Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University
Award-winning journalist and author and senior lecturer and director of audio programming at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University
HBCU Made: A Celebration of the Black College Experience
Host of NPR’s "Weekend Edition Sunday" and the Saturday episodes of "Up First"
Award-winning journalist and author and senior lecturer and director of audio programming at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University
Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
Science and comics writer and editor, and the host and consulting producer of "Extraordinary Birder" on National Geographic
Award-winning journalist and author and senior lecturer and director of audio programming at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University
I’m Still Here: Loving Myself in a World Not Made for Me
Bestselling author, writer, speaker, and CEO of Herself Media
Award-winning journalist and author and senior lecturer and director of audio programming at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University
The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER
Emergency medicine physician at The University of Chicago Medical Center
Award-winning journalist and author and senior lecturer and director of audio programming at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University
Glory: Magical Visions of Black Beauty
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Award-winning journalist and author and senior lecturer and director of audio programming at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University