Niala Boodhoo

Niala Boodhoo is an American journalist, Knight-Wallace Fellow and the host of Axios Today.

For three years she was the founding host and executive producer of Illinois Public Media's statewide radio talk show, The 21st. Previously a business reporter for the Miami Herald and Chicago Public Media, she hosted WBEZ's mid-day talk show, The Afternoon Shift, before joining WILL in Urbana, Illinois. Boodhoo also served as the Vice President for Broadcast of the Asian American Journalists Association from 2012 to 2016. She was formerly host of the Asian American Journalists Association program AAJA.