Celeste Headlee
Geboren: December 30, 1969 – Whittier, California, United States
Celeste Headlee is an American journalist, radio host, and author who writes and speaks about communication, work culture, and race. She is best known for We Need to Talk, Do Nothing, and Speaking of Race, and for her TED talk “10 ways to have a better conversation,” viewed millions of times.
Biografie & Werdegang des Autors
Celeste Headlee’s route to authorship ran through music and broadcast journalism. Raised in a family shaped by performance and a mixed cultural inheritance, she is the granddaughter of composer William Grant Still. She studied at the Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts, earned a bachelor’s degree in vocal performance at Northern Arizona University, and completed a master’s in vocal performance at the University of Michigan. Before becoming widely known as a journalist, she worked as an operatic soprano and performed Still’s music. She entered public radio in 1999 and later worked at WDET, NPR, The Takeaway, and Georgia Public Broadcasting’s On Second Thought. ((https://celesteheadlee.com/celeste-headlee-musician/))
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