Email address:
tanya_ballard_brown@harvard.edu

Twitter handle:
@TdoubleB

Website:
https://about.me/tballardbrown

I am currently a Professional journalist or technologist working in media

Company:
NPR

Job Title:
Editor III

Bio:

I am a 2019 fellow with the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, spending an academic year studying how comedic journalism — the intersection of humor, satire and journalism — can help journalists connect with their audiences and build community.

I’m also a seasoned digital editor with experience brainstorming and implementing digital features; managing digital producers and interns; editing digital stories; and writing promotional text such as teasers and social media pitches. I excel at collaborating with editors and reporters from other media platforms to create complementary digital content.

I love pop culture, arts and entertainment, and have laughed loudly on NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast and Facebook Live segments. I sing show tunes, dance randomly, take acting and improv classes, perform at storytelling events, front a band made up of NPR staffers and dream of being a bass player. Or Sarah Vaughan. Whichever comes first.

Affiliations:
National Association of Black Journalists

Areas of expertise:
Basic HTML/CSS, Web production experience, Social media branding – Newsroom / organization level, Social media branding – Individual, Social media branding – Sub-branded accounts (such as a Politics Blog or Regional Channel), Mobile Video (shooting), Mobile Video (shooting, editing, publishing), Data analysis – Beginner level, Beat reporter

Speaking Experience
Yes, have led sessions individually, Yes, have spoken on panels

Past Speaking Experience:

Race, Identity and Codeswitching, The Wooly Mammoth, 2015
Writing for the Web, NABJ Convention, 2011
Why Black Men?, NABJ Convention, 2007

City / Location Preferences:

I am open to speaking in any city.