Michele Norris

Michele Norris is an award-winning journalist and NPR host and special correspondent. Norris also leads “The Race Card Project,” an initiative to foster conversations about race and cultural identity that she created after publication of her 2010 family memoir, The Grace of Silence. In 2014, The Race Card Project was honored with a Peabody Award for excellence in electronic media. Prior to joining NPR in 2002, Norris spent nearly ten years as a reporter for ABC News. She has also worked as a staff writer for The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times. While at the Shorenstein Center, she led a series of study groups on the role of race and cultural identity in politics, policy and pop culture.