The Story
Ayanna is an author and poet who has also written for the Huffington Post, The Forward, The National Monitor, and The American Spectator. Jonathan Groubert, the host of the award-winning radio program, “The State We’re In” on Radio Netherlands Worldwide in association with National Public Radio (NPR) interviewed her about growing up in Africa and can be heard on her website.
She is a philanthropist, and founder of the Zimbabwe Farm Project. An American by birth, she spent her formative years in Nigeria and Tanzania, but now lives in the U.S. and Zimbabwe. Ayanna is also the publisher and editor-in-chief of The Nahmias Cipher Report (TNCR), an internationally acclaimed website.
She write articles with a focus on social and political commentary on global events. The TNCR also features articles by talented student journalists writers with a passion for international affairs and human rights issues. The primary focus of the report is current events in emerging economies, international politics, human rights abuses, women’s rights and child advocacy.
She has recently launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise money to fund the TNCR to enable payment per article to contributing student journalists.