🧑🏿‍🏫 Associate Professor at Carleton University’s School of Journalism 
👸🏿 Carty Chair of Journalism, Diversity and Inclusion Studies 

ABOUT ME
🎧 Executive director of a podcast production company 
🎤 15+ years as a radio/podcast host and producer, mostly at Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
🇨🇦 Ghanaian-Canadian 🇬🇭, Black, she/her 
🗣 Pronounced “nuhNAAAHbuh” (all one word)

PREVIOUSLY
💻 William Southam Journalism Fellow at University of Toronto's Massey College, studying the experiences of racialized leaders in newsrooms. 

BOARD MEMBER
🎯 Victoria University College at University of Toronto
🎯 Canadian Journalists for Freedom of Expression

MEDIA GIRLFRIENDS
I launched Media Girlfriends as a podcast in 2016 looking behind the scenes of women working in journalism. 

We are a podcast production company led by women who are Black & POC which honours, respects and centres historically misrepresented voices, through excellent journalism and storytelling done with care. We aim for joyful creativity.
 
With co-owners Garvia Bailey & Hannah Sung, and a team of excellent audio professionals, Media Girlfriends is currently producing a Black history podcast and video series with Historica Canada. 

Media Girlfriends is also a peer support network & annual $30K student scholarship. We support women, non-binary & trans journalists, and invite everyone. We’re focused on more perspectives in Canadian media, particularly those by Black, Indigenous and other people of colour. 

We offer:
🎙 Podcast & video production
✍🏿 Seminars on podcasting & storytelling
📖 Sensitivity reads on scripts
👩🏾‍🎓 Annual $10K student scholarships (x3) 
📣 Informal peer mentorship & support
🎪 Events 

LOOKING FOR
🎯 Excellent audio editors for Media Girlfriends projects
🎯 Racialized editorial leaders for research 
🎯 Women/non-binary/trans journalists
🎯 Racialized journalists 

AFFILIATIONS
♣️ Founding Co-chair of DiversifyCBC 
♣️ Canadian Association of Black Journalists
♣️ Poynter Women Leaders
♣️ Canadian Journalists of Colour
♣️ Journalists of Color Slack
♣️ National Association of Black Journalists 

LOCATIONS
🇨🇦 Based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
🇬🇭 Born at Ridge Hospital in Accra, Ghana
 
EMAIL
Academic 📩nanaaba.duncan@utoronto.ca
Business 📩hello@mediagirlfriends.com
Personal 📩 nanaaba.d@gmail.com

LINKS
🔗 mediagirlfriends.com 
🔗 nanaabaduncan.com
🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/nanaaba/