Kali Holloway

Kali Holloway is a columnist for The Nation and has contributed to The New Republic, TIME, The Guardian, The Daily Beast, Salon, and other outlets.

Her writing was recognized with a 2022 Deadline Club Award for Opinion Writing and a 2023 Clarion Award for Online Journalism. She is co-producer of the documentary Sunset and the Mockingbird, about jazz pianist Junior Mance, which debuted at the 2025 True/False film festival, and was an official selection at DOC NYC. She is currently working on her debut book, The Secret Racist History of Everything, which examines the racist origins of everyday American institutions.

In her former role as director of the Make It Right Project, Holloway led a national initiative dedicated to removing Confederate monuments and telling the truth about history. Before that, she was a Senior Writer and Associate Editor of Media & Culture at the progressive news site AlterNet. In 2017, she co-curated the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s performance and film series Theater of the Resist.

She served as co-producer on the short film DJ Mojo: Music is Life, co-producer and outreach director on the PBS documentary The New Public, and Director of Outreach and Audience Engagement for the HBO documentary Southern Rites and the Emmy-nominated film Brooklyn Castle, and Outreach Consultant on the award-winning documentary The New Black.

She worked in production and programming on the long-running PBS documentary film series POV. Prior to that, she was Deputy Director of Communications for the New York State court system, after serving as a speechwriter for a New York City Commissioner. She started her career writing music reviews for what is now Napster and the DFA Records label.