NATALIE MOORE

Natalie Moore is a reporter covering segregation and inequality for WBEZ Chicago. She is the author of The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation, winner of the 2016 Chicago Review of Books award for nonfiction and a Buzzfeed best nonfiction book of 2016, and “The Billboard,” a play about abortion. She is also co-author of The Almighty Black P Stone Nation: The Rise, Fall and Resurgence of an American Gang and Deconstructing Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation. 

Natalie’s accolades include the Chicago Library Foundation’s 21st Century Award, the Studs Terkel Community Media Award, Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism. Other honors are from the Radio Television Digital News Association (Edward R. Murrow), Public Radio News Directors Incorporated, National Association of Black Journalists, Illinois Associated Press, Chicago Headline Club. The Pulitzer Center named her a 2020 Richard C. Longworth Media Fellow for international reporting. She is on the board of Seminary Co-op Bookstore and chair of the Harold Washington Literary Awards.