Wendi C. Thomas is an independent journalist whose work focuses on economic and racial justice. Thomas writes for The Christian Science Monitor and The Undefeated, and is a senior writing fellow with the Center for Community Change.Thomas was a 2016 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. She has also taught at the University of Memphis and at Harvard University’s Extension School, where she was invited to develop the school’s first journalism course about race and class.From 2003 to 2014, Thomas was a metro columnist and assistant managing editor at The (Memphis) Commercial Appeal. She was the first black woman to write opinion for the then 162-year-old newspaper. Before that, she was an editor at The Charlotte Observer, an editor and reporter at The (Nashville) Tennessean, and a reporter at The Indianapolis Star.Thomas received her B.A. in Journalism from Butler University.