Davia Nelson

Davia Nelson is half of NPR’s Kitchen Sisters, producers of the winning series Hidden Kitchens on NPR’s Morning Edition and two Peabody Award-winning NPR series, Lost & Found Sound and The Sonic Memorial Project. The Kitchen Sisters’ first book Hidden Kitchens: Stories, Recipes & More From NPR’s Kitchen Sisters was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.  Their current NPR series and podcast is The Keepers, stories of activist archivists, rogue librarians, curators, collectors and historians. At the Mesa, Davia worked on two projects—writing the narration for The Keepers: Archive Fever, to be narrated by Frances McDormand, and writing the second Kitchen Sisters book, Show the Girls the Snakes.