Kaia Niambi Shivers's Blog
My Day in Court with a Real Housewife of New Jersey
April 5th, 2011 / 6:49 pm
  It was a gig that came from out of space; and I think I'm still stuck there. Somewhere in between a galaxy of reality TV and all the normal people, I was called in the midst of my recovery from qualifying exams to cover a housewife. And not just any housewife, but Teresa Guidice. I was referenced by a fellow Newark journalism professor to do some freelance work for the
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Africa Shoots Back with Exploding Video Film Industries
May 26th, 2009 / 5:37 pm
Horror films being produced in Tanzania. Pentecostal films being produced in Kinshasa. Films on corruption in Nigeria. South African Bollywood being shot in Durban.  These are just some of the things I learned at an international conference that took place in Mainz, Germany @ Johannes Gutenberg University to explore the explosion of Nollywood in a conference titled,
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Kaia Niambi Shivers
SC&I Fellow
Doctoral Student
Journalism and Media Studies
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Bio

A former journalist and grassroots organizer from Los Angeles, her research focus looks at consumption of media and its affect on imagining, creating and performing identity amongst members of the African Disapora in the NYC metropolitan area.

In her spare time, she has become addicted to Bikram Yoga, Biking, and Sci-Fi literature written by women of African descent.

Education
M.A. Clark Atlanta University, Africana Women's Studies
Woodhull Institute Fellow
B.S. Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University, Psychology/African-American Studies
Research

African Diaspora and the Media; African Film Industry; Black and Alternative Press; Race, Class, & Gender in the Media