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Editor of Real Estate at The New York Times and author of "Troop 6000: The Girl Scout Troop That Began in a Shelter and Inspired the World"
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Claim your profileNikita Stewart is the author of "Troop 6000: The Girl Scout Troop That Began in a Shelter and Inspired the World" and is a journalist at The New York Times. In 2020, the Newswomen's Club of New York honored her with the Ida B. Wells Award for Exceptional Coverage of Communities of Color. The organization recognized her work covering homelessness, mental health and poverty in 2018. She was a contributor to the groundbreaking 1619 Project, writing an essay about how slavery is taught in American schools and sharing the story of her paternal great grandfather who was enslaved as a boy. Stewart has won several other awards and previously worked at The Washington Post where she helped chronicle the inauguration of President Barack Obama and uncovered campaign fraud in a mayoral election. Earlier at The Star-Ledger in New Jersey, she followed an up-and-coming Cory Booker and other politicians in Newark.