Natalie Y. Moore is an editor at WBEZ, Chicago’s NPR member station.

Her enterprise reporting has tackled race, housing, economic development, food injustice and violence. She is also a monthly columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times. Natalie is a storyteller and moves through multiple genres – radio, podcasting, digital, books, magazines, newspapers, art catalogues and most recently playwriting.

Natalie is the author of “The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation,” winner of the 2016 Chicago Review of Books award for nonfiction and a Buzzfeed best nonfiction book of 2016. She is co-author of “The Almighty Black P Stone Nation: The Rise, Fall and Resurgence of an American Gang” and “Deconstructing Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation.” Natalie contributed to “Southside,” a collection of stories about the criminal justice system in Chicago in collaboration with The Marshall Project/Amazon Original Stories in 2018. For the 100th anniversary of the 1919 Chicago riots, she co-wrote a 30-minute audio drama with Make Believe Association that aired on WBEZ. 16th Street Theater adapted portions of “The South Side” in 2019. Haymarket Books will publish “The Billboard.” She is a 2021 USA Fellow.

Natalie’s work has helped shift the way Chicagoans today think about segregation in the region. She is a sought-after speaker for high school assemblies, colleges, foundations, churches, festivals and community groups. Natalie is still thrilled Alex Trebek said her name. In 2019, Natalie and her book were a “Jeopardy” clue.