She serves on the Peabody Awards board of directors. She has also received a National Dialogue Award for fostering difficult conversations across political and ideological differences.

Norris has won Emmy and DuPont and Livingston awards for her work. She has also done reporting projects for Time, National Geographic, PBS and Lifetime Television. Prior to that, she was a staff writer for The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune and the LA Times. Michele is also the author of The Grace of Silence, a book that examines how hidden narratives around race can have a profound and lasting impact.īefore joining NPR, Michele worked for a decade as a television correspondent for ABC News in the Washington bureau. The project has archived more than 500,000 stories and has been used by hundreds of schools, businesses, churches, museums, and even the justice department and the US military to foster dialogue and deep examination of how racial dynamics work in institutions. In 2015 she left NPR to devote more time to building The Race Card Project’s vast narrative archive. In partnership with NPR, Michele produced a series of powerful radio segments based on Race Card Project narratives that were honored with a Peabody Award. In 2010, Michele started The Race Card Project where she asked people around the world to share their experiences, questions, hopes, and dreams, laments, and observations about identity –in just six words–as the starting point for conversations about race. She later served as a special correspondent for NPR covering race and identity in America. She is a columnist for The Washington Post opinion page and her voice will be familiar to followers of public radio, where from 2002 to 2012 she was a host of National Public Radio’s afternoon magazine show, All Things Considered. Michele Norris is one of the most trusted voices in journalism. Michele Norris Journalist, Author, and Instigator

The Grace of Silence by Michele Norris