About Nadra

Nadra Nittle is an award-winning journalist with a background reporting on a wide range of topics — from arts and culture to food and agriculture. She is now an education reporter for The 19th News and founder of The Fault Line, an independent newsroom covering how policy, culture and history shape the lives of Californians statewide.

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 sites including The Guardian, NBC News, KCET, The History Channel and The Atlantic. 

Nadra is also 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 edited multiple book series for Enslow Publishing and wrote the 2018 book “Recognizing Microaggressions” for that publisher.

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.