Ron Stodghill

Ron Stodghill is an award-winning journalist whose career spans nearly two decades and includes roles as a staff writer for the New York Times, Midwest bureau chief for Time, Washington correspondent for Business Week, and editor-in-chief of Savoy magazine. Educated at the University of Missouri, Queens University of Charlotte, and Harvard University, where he studied as a Nieman Fellow, Stodghill is the author of Redbone: Money, Malice and Murder in Atlanta (HarperCollins/Amistad), a critically-praised work of literary non-fiction published in 2007. He is also co-author of No Free Ride: From the Mean Streets to the Mainstream, former U.S. Congressman and NAACP president Kweisi Mfume’s best-selling memoir (Ballantine Books, 1996). An associate professor at University of Missouri, Stodghill's most recent book, Where Everybody Looks Like Me, a narrative account of the crisis facing America’s historically black colleges (HarperCollins/Amistad), was nominated for a Hurston/Wright Legacy award.