![]() ![]() Similar engagements at Metro State University-Denver and the Cleveland Library netted her $25,000 and $20,000 respectively. In a few instances, she never had to leave her home Northern Illinois University paid Hannah-Jones $30,000 for a Zoom talk. Her speeches generally lasted an hour or less. The report notes that this is likely an undercount, as the list of speeches is incomplete and doesn’t take into account the private institutions that may well have handed out even more cash. Assuming this pay rate for the other 22 colleges, Hannah-Jones would have raked in $1.4 million in speaking fees in 2022 alone. Īccording to an investigation conducted by the Daily Wire-which filed a Freedom of Information Act request with 11 public-taxpayer funded colleges -Hannah-Jones was paid an average of $43,000 per speech. ![]() Nikole Hannah-Jones attends the Legal Defense Fund's 34th National Equal Justice Awards Dinner at Jazz At Lincoln Center on Tuesday, May 10, 2022, in New York. ![]()
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