American author Nita Wiggins is an acclaimed speaker, television commentator, and journalism instructor. Wiggins appears regularly on Paris' France 24 television network to discuss workplace equality, women’s working lives, and media accuracy and representation, as well as U.S. life through the lens of politics, sports, and race. A sought-after voice, Wiggins has spoken via video conference to groups in Germany and Lebanon. She has been interviewed on Cameroon’s CRTV and Senegal’s TFM networks and in the Washington Post.

Black Women in Europe® named her to the group’s 2018 Power List for her prominence as a thought leader and educator.

From the iconic Eiffel Tower during Global Sports Week 2021, Wiggins moderated an international panel, Sports as a Catalyst for Social Justice. Also in early 2021, she presented her paper, “Testimony on Economic Lynching in the United States,” at the Université de Tours conference titled The Black Family: Representation, Identity, and Diversity.

Civil Rights Baby: My Story of Race, Sports, and Breaking Barriers in American Journalism is her first full-length book. The memoir takes readers through her 21 years inside TV newsrooms--and the confrontations that she faces in pursuit of her sports-reporting goals.

Wiggins shared in a 2001 regional Emmy for Special Events Coverage for KDFW-TV Fox 4 in Dallas, Texas. She received the national RTNDF Michele Clark Fellowship while a reporter at WSAZ-TV in West Virginia in 1989.

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