About Nadra

Nadra Kareem Nittle is the author of the Fortress Press books “bell hooks’ Spiritual Vision” and “Toni Morrison’s Spiritual Vision,” named one of Spirituality and Practice’s best spiritual books of 2021. She also edited multiple book series for Enslow Publishing and wrote the 2018 book “Recognizing Microaggressions” for that publisher.

An award-winning journalist with a background reporting on a wide range of topics, including education, religion, public policy, food, health and the arts, she is now an education reporter for The 19th News. She is a former senior reporter for Civil Eats and a former staff writer for Vox.com, the Los Angeles News Group, and the USA Today Network. As a contributor, she has written for publications and news sites such as The Guardian, NBC News, KCET, The History Channel, Outreach Magazine, Insider, and The Atlantic. 

Nadra has discussed her work in a number of media outlets, including KQED, “PBS News Weekend,” “Good Morning America,” WYNC’s “The Takeaway,” the Columbia Journalism Review, Canadian Broadcasting Corp., Vox’s Today Explained podcast, and Southern California Public Radio. Additionally, she has been a featured panelist and moderator at events organized by The 19th, the James Beard Foundation, the L.A. Times Festival of Books, Cal State L.A., and Occidental College, her alma mater. 

She lives in Los Angeles.