NeEddra James is a critical theorist, investigative journalist, audio producer and writer whose work spans AI/ML, health and science, cultural politics and the political economy of carceral systems.

She currently runs the AI/ML desk at KALW public media in San Francisco.  

She was the host and executive producer of The Radio Show on KALX 90.7 FM — a 10 episode political analysis show unpacking the headlines with local organizers, researchers, and public figures. 

Her journalism on grief tech, immigration enforcement, the defense tech sector, deregulation and perimenopausal ADHD has aired on KALW 91.7 FM and KALX 90.7 FM.

NeEddra holds a MJ in Audio Documentary from UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she studied with Shereen Marisol Meraji, former host of NPR’s Code Switch.

She also holds an MA in History of Consciousness from UC Santa Cruz, where she studied with Gina Dent, Angela Y. Davis, Herman Gray, Jennifer Gonzalez and James Clifford. 

She is a Ford Foundation Fellow, a Whitney Museum Independent Study Program Alum, and a Mellon Mays Fellow.

Her book, The Cost of Being: A Metabolic Critique of Sovereignty in the Age of Machine Learning, is in progress.