Farai Chideya

Farai Chideya has accomplished many things at 28 years old that many journalists can only hope to achieve. She began her career as an intern at Newsweek while studying at Harvard. After her graduation, she was hired at Newsweek as a reporter and stayed on from 1990-1994. Chideya covered news in Newsweek's New York and Chicago bureaus, as well as in the Washington bureau, where she covered national politics, from an article titled "Skewering Congressional Pork," …

…package about the "World's Ten Best Schools"), a Unity Award in Media (for a Newsweek story in a cover package about the black family) and a GLAAD Award (for a Spin magazine story on homophobia in hip-hop). Besides her two current postions, Chideya currently serves as a member of the Advisory Board of the American News Service and has her own web site called www.popandpolitics.com, which has both music reviews and political commentary.