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Nichole Shaw
Nichole Shaw is a 2021 honors graduate of the University of Iowa, where she studied journalism and English on the publishing track with a keen interest in issues of social and racial justice, particularly as it concerned diversity, equity and inclusion. She is the editor of Off-Kilter Media and a general assignment reporter at the Chicago Sun-Times, in addition to her work as Gazette fellow. She has worked at The New York Times, The Daily Iowan, Fools Magazine, VERVE Magazine, the National Association of Black Journalists’ NURU, Quill and Scroll, Public Space One/the Center for Afrofuturist Studies, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at UI. In all these positions, her mission has been to tell the stories of voices that often go unheard or ignored.
Latest Articles by Nichole Shaw
Staff Columnists Apr. 3, 2022 12:00 pm309d ago
This 40-year inflation high has hit the Midwest harder than any other region in the nation.
Staff Columnists Mar. 12, 2022 6:00 am330d ago
Iowa is pushing people out instead of welcoming them in.
Staff Columnists Feb. 26, 2022 6:00 am344d ago
The American people are left to fight in culture wars they don’t even truly understand
Staff Columnists Feb. 13, 2022 6:00 am358d ago
The need for mental health services and equal access to these services is urgent.
Staff Columnists Jan. 29, 2022 6:00 am372d ago
The question is what — can we do as a community to prevent the violence?
Staff Columnists Jan. 14, 2022 12:20 pm386d ago
Republican lawmakers hope to paint a pretty picture that fits within the straight, white, heteronormative narrative
Staff Columnists Dec. 29, 2021 6:05 am403d ago
Remember what happened on Jan. 6
Opinion Dec. 7, 2021 9:50 am424d ago
It’s a bleak outlook for those of us with marginalized identities
Staff Columnists Nov. 25, 2021 5:00 am437d ago
The food scene in Iowa City is a travesty for culturally and ethnically diverse students
Staff Columnists Nov. 13, 2021 6:00 am449d ago
People can’t be blamed for not wanting to enter a workforce that doesn’t value them as real people
Staff Columnists Oct. 29, 2021 3:00 pm463d ago
Send the monsters away for good this Halloween
Staff Columnists Oct. 13, 2021 2:13 pm479d ago
While people often think of race and gender, the scope expands much further beyond those demographics
Opinion Sep. 20, 2021 8:49 am503d ago
There is an underlying commonality that all communities suffering from poverty experience, which is the lack of access to adequate education, sanitation, nutrition and housing.
Opinion Sep. 8, 2021 6:01 am515d ago
The lack of criminal charges is what spurred the protests at the University of Iowa, starting with an online petition that garnered over 130,000 signatures to shut FIJI down nationwide.
Opinion Aug. 29, 2021 6:00 am526d ago
It is no lie that Black-white biracial individuals experience a sort of privilege in the economy, relationships or intimate desirability, and imprisonment.