Kia Gregory is a journalist drawn to examining how people and their communities are affected by systems, with a particular focus on racial justice and liberation.
Kia has covered local politics, public education and the criminal legal system, and earned numerous awards for her enterprise reporting and narrative writing. Her work has appeared in publications such as The Atlantic, Capital B, The New Republic, and The New Yorker, and she has been on staff as a reporter at the New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Philadelphia Weekly.
As a journalism scholar, Kia researches the societal impact of media narratives, how journalism intersects with social-justice organizing, and journalism as a public good, with an emphasis on critical thinking, empathy, and community-centered reporting.
Kia is an author at Knopf, currently working on a narrative non-fiction book titled Indictment: An American Tragedy. The book interweaves the stories of four individuals indelibly impacted by ongoing police violence against African Americans, highlighting their fight for justice and healing.
Kia is also the founder of LEGACY, a community-led media collective and forthcoming news magazine, focused on Black policy, Black power, and Black joy.
Her ancestors are from North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with roots in the Eastern Shore of Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia, Cabo Verde, Nigeria, and Senegal. Kia resides on the Indigenous lands of the Lenape people in New York City, New York.
