Nichole Hill is an award-winning audio showrunner and creator of the podcasts The Secret Adventures of Black People and Our Ancestors Were Messy, a 2024 Official Tribeca Audio Selection.

Her most recent work includes showrunning for the podcasts I Am America with Tracee Ellis Ross, She Has a Name with Tonya Mosley, and Apathy Is Not An Option presented by The Southern Poverty Law Center and PRX. Back in the day she worked as Associate Producer (and occasional voice actor) for the audio fiction podcast The Truth with Radiotopia.

Her work has appeared on podcasts for Audible, NPR, PRX, Snap Judgement, and New York Magazine.

LIVE SHOWS

Our Ancestors Were Messy, is a show about the gossip, scandals, and pop culture that made headlines and then history in pre-Civil Rights Era America. Host Nichole Hill takes her guests through the story of an ancestor in search of opportunity, adventure, love, and a way to beat Jim Crow. In it’s debut season, Our Ancestors Were Messy was named a 2024 Tribeca Official Selection, featured on Snap Judgement and NPR’s Code Switch, and selected by industry leaders as one of the 100 best podcasts of all time.

SPEAKING/TEACHING ENGAGEMENTS

PERFORMANCES

2025 TRIBECA FESTIVAL X NYU ARTHUR L CARTER JOURNALISM INSTITUTE

SPEAKING

• THIS AMERICAN LIFE STAFF RETREAT (GUEST SPEAKER)

• RESONATE PODCAST FESTIVAL (KEYNOTE SPEAKER)

• SALT INSTITUTE FOR DOCUMENTARY STUDIES (LECTURER)

• BROWN UNIVERSITY (GUEST SPEAKER)

• HOWARD UNIVERSITY (GUEST SPEAKER)

• NEW YORK UNIVERSITY (GUEST SPEAKER)

• PARIS SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS (GUEST SPEAKER)

• STANFORD UNIVERSITY (GUEST SPEAKER)

• STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY (GUEST SPEAKER)

• THE CREATIVE SCHOOL AT TORONTO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY (GUEST SPEAKER)

• VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY (GUEST SPEAKER)