Kia Miakka Natisse
Kia Miakka Natisse is the co-host of NPR's Invisibilia. A trained journalist turned artist, her love for storytelling is a driving creative force that's led her to many unexpected places. She's worked on a number of just-okay reality shows; wrote hot takes on pop culture, jokes for teens, and comics for moms; substitute taught kindergarten and did a bunch of artist residencies, most namely the Third Coast Radio Residency, which unarguably changed her life.
Since joining NPR, she's helped cover a summer camp that's confronting race, helped produce a story about a woman who can smell disease, been the voice of Dorothy Height and revisited the legend of the most famous super-spreader in America.
A native of Buffalo, NY, Kia is a graduate of Howard University and New York University.
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NPR's Kia Miakka Natisse describes how and why roller skating allows skaters, young and old, to push their bodies to the limit.
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I picked up skating as a coping mechanism after a year in my house and in my head. It gave me the gift of learning something new with my body, and a new perspective on how to move through the world.
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For generations, there have been demands for reparations from the U.S. government. The team of the NPR podcast Invisibilia shares a story from the history of the fight for reparations.