N. Jamiyla Chisholm

Focus areas: communications, journalism, creative writing

Nicole Jamiyla Chisholm is currently the Director of Creative Content for Barnard College's communications department, where she tells the unknown stories that lie within New York City’s only women’s college. 

As a journalist and editorial consultant, Chisholm has written about arts and culture for the daily racial justice news website ColorLines; created educational discussion guides and websites devoted to narrative change for TIME’S UP; and worked with more than a dozen national media companies and publications over two decades, including Viacom, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, Glamour, Essence, and the Village Voice. For BET, Chisholm’s writing won a National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences TV Cares Ribbon of Hope Award and a Cable Positive Award. 

Chisholm earned her MFA from the Writer's Foundry at St. Joseph's College, an MAT in teaching from the University of Southern California, and her undergraduate from the City University of New York. Her memoir, The Community, will publish June 2022.

Education

• MFA, St. Joseph's College
• Masters at Teaching, University of Southern California