Books By Arionne Nettles - Author

Arionne Nettles is a journalism lecturer at Northwestern University's Medill School, deputy editor at nonprofit civic media organization City Bureau, and host of the A Kids Company About podcast Is That True?, a kids podcast about facts. A multiplatform journalist, Nettles reports on Chicago history, culture, gun violence, policing, and race and class disparities as a contributor to the New York Times Opinion, Chicago Reader, The Trace, Medium's ZORA and Momentum, Chicago PBS station WTTW, and NPR affiliate WBEZ. Nettles is a proud member of the National Association of Black Journalists and works to teach Chicago-area teens the power of words through her organization, Write Chicago, and its "sicker than your average" writing workshops.