About Me

Tesfaye Negussie was raised in Silver Spring, Maryland (suburbs of D.C.). His earliest memories are of watching his father in the studio reporting for the Voice of America, however, he didn’t consider taking up journalism till he was in college. Since then, he has made it his life’s goal to travel the world, and tell the stories of people who are seldom seen in mainstream media. He wants to tell stories of all types of people, but as an African-American who is the son of Ethiopian immigrants, he takes special interest in telling the stories of Ethiopians, African-Americans and the African Diaspora as a whole. Tesfaye recently graduated from Columbia University’s graduate school of journalism. He currently works as a correspondent assistant on NOW on PBS with David Brancaccio and Maria Hinojosa. He is one of the producers for BmX.