AWARD WINNER

REBECCA

CARROLL

Writer, Cultural Critic, Podcaster, and Creative Consultant

is a writer, cultural critic, and host of the podcasts Come Through with Rebecca Carroll: 15 essential conversations about race in a pivotal year for America (WNYC Studios), and Billie Was a Black Woman (an Audible original), a companion podcast to the 2021 film, The United States Vs. Billie Holiday.

Rebecca is also the creator and curator of the live event and audio series, In Love & Struggle, which shares the lives and experiences of Black women in America through monologues, stories, music and humor. Her writing has been published in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Essence, Glamour, New York, and The Guardian, where she was a regular columnist for two years.

A former cultural critic and producer for WNYC, and critic-at-large for the Los Angeles Times, she is an editor-at-large for The Meteor, a new media collective. Rebecca is also the author of several interview-based books about race in America, and her recent, critically-acclaimed memoir, Surviving the White Gaze, has been optioned by Killer Films and MGM TV for a limited-series adaptation with Rebecca attached to write and executive produce.

She is the recipient of the ALA Yalsa Award for Best Young Adult Nonfiction for Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America, an NABJ Salute to Excellence Award for her radio essay series, Dear President: What You Need to Know About Race, and she received a Bronze medal in podcasting from New York Radio Festival Awards for the podcast she created and hosts, Billie Was a Black Woman.