Channing Joseph

Channing Gerard Joseph is an award-winning journalist, essayist, and creative nonfiction author with more than two decades of experience producing impactful stories on racial inequality, LGBTQ+ culture, economic hardship, and a broad range of other coverage areas. A former staff editor at the Associated Press and The New York Times, where he edited the work of two dozen Pulitzer Prize winners, Joseph’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, The International Herald Tribune, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Atlantic, and many others.

He is also a recognized global authority on African American LGBTQ+ history and culture. Joseph’s groundbreaking research on Black queer history has been featured by the National Archives and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture. He has been the recipient of several prestigious awards, including the Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin, the Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, and fellowships from the Leon Levy Center for Biography and the Logan Nonfiction Program.

In 2022, he was named a TED Fellow, honoring him as one of 20 global “visionaries” whose work is sparking “future-shaping change around the world.” His official TED Talk, “How Black Queer Culture Shaped History,” has gone viral, receiving more than 1.5 million views.

Joseph regularly appears in international media and has been featured on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, Deutsche Welle, BBC World News, CBS News, Canada’s CBC, and France24.