Farai has combined media, technology, and diversity during her 20-year career as an award-winning author and journalist. Chideya is a political contributor to WNYC, and is an advisor to the technology and ecommerce company Etsy.
She was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, and graduated from Harvard University Magna Cum Laude in 1990. Chideya has written three nonfiction books: Trust: Reaching the 100 Million Missing Voters; The Color of Our Future; and Don't Believe the Hype: Fighting Cultural Misinformation About African Americans. Her novel Kiss the Sky (Atria Books) was released in hardcover May 2009.
