Dante Chinni

Practitioner in Residence
Department of Government

• Additional Positions at AU

  Fellow, Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies
  Director, Patchwork Nation, Jefferson Institute
  
• Dante Chinni is the director of the Patchwork Nation project, a Knight Foundation-funded collaboration including the PBS NewsHour and WNYC radio that studies politics, socio-economics and culture in a time of change. Patchwork Nation, a project of the Jefferson Institute, won a 2009 Knight Batten Award for journalistic innovation and will be the focus on the upcoming book "Our Patchwork Nation" from Gotham, an imprint of Penguin, to be published this fall.
  
  Based in Washington, D.C., Chinni has been covering politics and the media for more than 10 years. He has worked as a reporter-researcher at Newsweek and a senior associate at the Project for Excellence in Journalism. He has written for publications including The Economist, Columbia Journalism Review, and The Washington Post Magazine. A native of Detroit and a graduate of Michigan State University, he lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Christina, and their two children.

• Degrees

  BA Journalism and History, Michigan State University

• Favorite Spot on Campus:

  The Davenport
  

  Book Currently Reading:

  Travels with Charley, Five Easy Decades
  

  Languages Spoken:

  English, unless exhausted