02/03/2020
As if one needs ANOTHER reason to attend the NPPA's Northern Short Course ... but here's a great one, Jahi Chikwendiu is top-notch, a real inspiration.
We're excited to announce Jahi Chikwendiu of the Washington Post Washington Post has joined the faculty of the 2020 Northern Short Course, coming to Fairfax, Va., March 5-7.
Since joining the Washington Post, Jahi’s main base of coverage has been the DC area, but he has covered a wide range of stories that include DC’s broken school system, the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq and the country’s adjustments following the 2012 US military pullout, AIDS and poverty in Kenya, genocide in Darfur, cluster bomb victims in South Lebanon, the 2011 formation of the world’s newest country, South Sudan.
He spent the first three months of 2009 in Africa covering the Barack Obama inauguration from the Kenyan home village of the US president’s father and other stories in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Kenya, and South Sudan.
In 2014, Jahi spent well over a month in Missouri covering issues surrounding the fatal shooting of unarmed, Black teenager Michael Brown by Darren Wilson, a police officer for the city of Ferguson, Missouri.
In the past couple of years, Jahi has covered issues of immigration in the US, the economic recovery of Ferguson, Missouri, four years after the death of Michael Brown, unemployment in Omaha, Nebraska, voting among voter suppression in rural Georgia, the effects of governmental collapse in Venezuela on the neighboring island-nation of Trinidad, and the mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio.
His work has been recognized by various local, national, and international organizations - but his heart always comes back to the question of how to best evolve as a storyteller and how to best raise the next generation of visionaries.
Visit our website for more information about the 39th annual Northern Short Course, coming to Fairfax, Va., March 5-7, 2020 (http://www.northernshortcourse.org)
