Jaha Nailah Avery hails from Asheville, North Carolina, and received her law degree from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she studied constitutional and civil rights law. She spent several years in the startup tech space before embarking on her professional writing career, and her work can be found in Essence Magazine, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Architectural Digest, Vanity Fair, and more. She recently wrapped production on a season of an investigative podcast (The Corridor, produced by Threshold Podcast), focusing on the history of Cancer Alley outside New Orleans.
