Chana Joffe-Walt

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Chana Joffe-Walt
Chana Joffe-Walt at the 75th Annual Peabody Awards for This American LIfe's The Case for School Desegregation Today (cropped).jpg
Joffe-Walt at the Peabody Awards in 2016
Alma mater Oberlin College
OccupationRadio producer
Employer This American Life
Awards2016 Peabody Award winner, 2023 Dupont Award winner

Chana Joffe-Walt is a radio journalist and producer. She has worked for Planet Money and This American Life .

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Early life

Joffe-Walt's parents, Brian Walt [1] and activist Zara Joffe, are South African. [2] She graduated from Oberlin College in 2003. [3]

Career

Joffe-Walt began her radio career volunteering for a community radio station outside Seattle, KBCS. She was later a reporter for the Seattle radio station KPLU and a freelancer for NPR before being recruited to work for Planet Money. [2] She then became a producer for This American Life.

In 2020, the New York Times published Nice White Parents , a five-part podcast reported by Joffe-Walt. [4]

Awards

In 2015, Joffe-Walt, along with Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ira Glass, won a Peabody Award for an episode of This American Life on school segregation and education. [5]

References

  1. ↑ Hull, Hermine (2016-06-29). "West Tisbury: They haying is done and the sheep are sheared". The Martha's Vineyard Times. Retrieved 2023-04-12.
  2. 1 2 Joffe-Walt, Chana (May 20, 2009). "It's Spelled C-H-A-N-A". Planet Money . Retrieved August 11, 2020.
  3. ↑ "Oberlin Alumni in Journalism", Oberlin College Website, 17 December 2019, retrieved August 21, 2020
  4. ↑ "Introducing Nice White Parents". The New York Times. July 23, 2020.
  5. ↑ "The Case for School Desegregation Today (This American Life)". peabodyawards.com. 2015. Retrieved September 3, 2025.


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