Alicia Nails, J.D.
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Alicia Nails, J.D. is an Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist with 40 years of experience in television, radio and print. She is a freelance journalist and director of Wayne State University’s Journalism Institute for Media Diversity. At the 2018 national convention in Detroit, the National Association of Black Journalists named her the NABJ Journalism Educator of the Year.
She has produced at WXIA (NBC) in Atlanta; WTVS (PBS) in Detroit; WCBS (CBS) and Essence Communications in New York City, as well as at Detroit’s FOX 2. She reported breaking news and features as writer/producer at WWJ NewsRadio 950 (CBS).
Her writing has appeared in the Detroit Free Press, The Detroit News, the Michigan Chronicle, and BLAC magazine, where she served on the advisory board. She is also a freelance writer through her company, SaidWrite.
Nails serves on the board of the Detroit Chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists and the Rosa Parks Scholarship Foundation.
She has executed citywide PR campaigns for the African World Festival and the Detroit Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. She serves on the National Communications Committee of the Sorority and served on the National Communications Committee of The Links, Incorporated, writing for internal and external media, internal and external communications, executive communications and was managing editor of the organization’s national publications.
Nails earned a broadcast journalism degree from Michigan State University in 1978, and a Juris Doctor degree from Wayne State University’s Law School in 1995.