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 . [4] 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. [5]

Awards

In 2016, 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. [6]

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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. 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, retrieved August 21, 2020
  4. Joffe-Walt, Chana (May 20, 2009). "It's Spelled C-H-A-N-A". Planet Money. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
  5. "Introducing Nice White Parents". The New York Times. July 23, 2020.
  6. "The Case for School Desegregation Today (This American Life)". April 19, 2016.