BIANCA VIVION

BIANCA VIVION is an award winning writer, artist, entrepreneur, and talk show host. Born in Los Angeles and later raised between Atlanta and Oakland, Vivion was marked from an early age as an imaginative storyteller and powerful thinker.

At 14, Vivion became the youngest news correspondent to National Public Radio, where she wrote weekly commentaries for the show All Things Considered. At 16, she was chosen to head NPR’s Youth News Desk at the 2012 Democratic National Convention. At 17, she became the youngest journalist ever nominated for the California Journalism Award for Excellence in Radio Reporting. At 18 years old, Vivion went on to become the youngest staff opinion writer to the New York Times, where she worked as a regular contributor for five years. In 2020, she served as a commentator and judge for the New York Times & CNN Democratic Presidential Debates.

In 2018, Vivion graduated from Columbia University with a Bachelor’s of Arts in international human rights and economics. She now works full time building her consulting firm VIVION Co., which she named as an ode to her three grandmothers Vivion, Vivienne, and Vivian whose lives embody and inspire a great deal of her writing on woman and girlhood. Although her primary medium is writing, Vivion works in an array of other media ranging from poetry to painting.

You can see Vivion’s work across platforms. She hosts popular advice and culture podcast ASK VIV, and in Fall 2022 premiered her debut talk show “GENERATIONAL ANXIETY with Bianca Vivion” on PBS and ALL ARTS TV. In December 2022, she launched a monthly in-person talkback series called “REFLECTIONS” at Theatre for a New Audience in downtown Brooklyn. She is currently working on a coming of age memoir featuring a collection of essays entitled Swimming Backwards: Stories of a Girl Who Read the Fine Print. 

Vivion sits on the Board of Directors & Artistic Council of Theatre for A New Audience and the Advisory Board of the Support Black Art Museum Initiative.

Bianca lives, loves, and dreams in Harlem, New York.