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’s the developer of Ontological Recursion Analysis (ORA), a method for revealing the ongoing instantiation of a historically and geographically specific ontology as “reality,” making domination and extraction feel inevitable.

Sh’e is the host and executive producer of The Radio Show on KALX 90.7 FM — a biweekly political news analysis show that unpacks political headlines with local organizers, researchers, and public figures. 

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

NeEddra holds an MA in History of Consciousness from UC Santa Cruz, where she studied with Angela Y. Davis, Donna Haraway, and Gina Dent, and is completing her MJ in Audio Production at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. She is a Ford Foundation Fellow and Mellon Mays Fellow.

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