Alzo Slade is a Peabody and multi-Emmy award winning journalist and storyteller. His stories have spanned a wide range of topics from Pro-Life Bootcamp, Bauxite mining fight in Jamaica to cobalt mining in The Democratic Republic of Congo. Slade won an Emmy for his reporting in “American Uprising,” a VICE News special covering the protests after the killing of George Floyd. He also won a Peabody for “Losing Ground,” an exploration about a little-known type of ownership known as “heirs property” is used to appropriate Black Land.

As a former philosophy professor, his storytelling is rooted in a deep-seated curiosity about the world and the human condition. His personal directive is ‘when I learn about the world, I learn about other people. When I learn about other people, I learn about myself.’ Currently, Alzo works with National Geographic and is a reoccurring panelist and guest host on NPR’s Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!