As Black students protested to make the University of Pittsburgh more equitable in the late 1960s, one professor saw a chance to uplift Black students.
Author Archives: Naomi Harris
Naomi Harris is the higher education reporter for PublicSource focused on colleges, universities and research based in the Pittsburgh region. Previously, she was the K-12 education reporter for The Capital Gazette newspaper in Maryland. Her reporting there focused on inequities in education, services for students with disabilities, discimination, racism and hate incidents in schools. She has also written for The DC Line and the Washington Afro American newspaper. She graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2017 with a dual bachelor’s degree in journalism and anthropology. While in college, she was a scholar with the White House Correspondents’ Association. Naomi has a deep passion for local reporting and believes journalism can connect communities to one another. In particular, she wants her work to elevate voices of the underrepresented and marginalized. Through a partnership with PublicSource, Naomi also is part of Open Campus, a nonprofit news organization focused on strengthening local reporting on higher education.
