Nadira Angelina Hira is an award-winning writer, editor, speaker, and television personality whose diverse work combines the study of culture, economics, and Generation Y in a 21st-century mashup all her own.

Nadira has become a leading voice on Gen Y, the fastest-growing segment of the American workforce, through her journalism at Fortune magazine and her insight as a Gen Yer herself. Nadira is currently writing a book about her generation—to be published by Jossey-Bass, an imprint of John Wiley & Sons—and has covered everything from Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter and President George W. Bush to UPS drivers and the antiquities market in her decade as a journalist. Nadira’s writing has also appeared in Essence, Smithsonian, and Men’s Fitness magazines, among other national publications.

Today, Nadira’s work extends to speaking and television. On the lecture circuit, Nadira shares her expertise on leadership, management, and all things Gen Y at industry conferences and such companies as Walt Disney Imagineering, AT&T, Kohler, and Eli Lilly. And on television, Nadira has been a featured personality on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, VH1’s The Fabulous Life, and CNBC’s The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, among others, and an expert commentator on many major outlets, including CBS, CNN, MSNBC, MTV, HGTV, NPR, and BBC-A.

Nadira has been recognized on the NewsBios “30 Under 30” list, and she has three times been nominated for the National Association of Black Journalists Salute to Excellence award—for features on Jay-Z, director Tyler Perry, and education nonprofit Management Leadership for Tomorrow.

Before her stint at Fortune, Nadira was an editorial talent consultant for Time Inc., canvassing top media talent for the company, and a contributor to MTV News online and on-air, focusing on the network’s Choose or Lose 2004 campaign. Nadira began her professional career at lifestyle magazine Savoy, where she was a staff writer.

Nadira has a B.A. in English with a creative writing emphasis from Stanford University, where she edited The Stanford Daily. A would-be poet, sometime bartender, and professional sports fan, she calls downtown Manhattan home.