NYU's, Chenjerai Kumanyika, producer of award-winning "Uncivil" podcast, to speak at Warren Wilson on "Police, Podcasts, and Politics".

Chenjerai Kumanyika is an assistant professor in NYU's Arthur L.Carter Journalism Institute. Dr. Chenjerai Kumanyika specializes in using historically focused - narrative non-fiction audio journalism to critique the ideology of American myths about issues such as race, the Civil War, and policing. He has published in a variety of scholarly journals and public venues such as This American Life, The Intercept, NPR, Transom, and VICE. Kumanyika is also the co-creator, co-executive producer and co-host of Uncivil, Gimlet Media’s Peabody Award-winning podcast on the Civil War and he is the collaborator for Scene on Radio’s “Seeing White,” series and Season 4 on the history of American democracy. Kumanyika’s work has been recognized with several prestigious honors including the George Foster Peabody Award (2018) for Uncivil and The Media Literate Media Award (NAMLE) for Scene on Radio (2021). In 2021, he received the Union of Democratic Communications’ Dallas Smythe Award for his career accomplishments and advocacy.