Carrie Kahn, NPR Biography
Reporter, National Desk, Culver City, CA
As a reporter for NPR's National Desk, Carrie Kahn covers news from Los Angeles. Kahn's reports can be heard on NPR's award-winning news programs including All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Weekend Edition, and Latino USA.
Before coming to NPR in 2004, Kahn worked for 2 1/2 years at NPR station KQED in San Francisco, first as an editor and then as a general assignment reporter with a focus on immigration reporting.
From 1994 to 2001, Kahn was NPR station KPBS Radio's Border and Community Affairs reporter. She covered immigration, cross-border issues, and San Diego's ethnic communities.
Kahn has frequently worked on assignment for NPR throughout Mexico, California, and in Littleton, Colorado.
While at KPBS, Kahn received numerous awards, including back-to-back Sol Price Awards for Responsible Journalism from the Society of Professional Journalists. She won the California/Nevada Associated Press award for Best News Feature, eight Golden Mike Awards from the Radio & TV News Association of Southern California and numerous prizes from the San Diego Press Club and the Society of Professional Journalists of San Diego. She was also awarded three consecutive La Pluma Awards from the California Chicano News Media Association.
Kahn is frequently called upon to lecture or discuss border issues and bi-national journalism. Her work has been cited for fairness and balance by the Poynter Institute of Media Studies. She was awarded and completed a Pew Fellowship in International Journalism at Johns Hopkins University.
Before coming to KPBS, Kahn worked for NPR station KUSP and published a bilingual community newspaper in Santa Cruz, California.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Kahn received a Bachelors degree from UC Santa Cruz in Biology. For several years she was a human genetics researcher in California and in Costa Rica. She has traveled extensively throughout Mexico, Central America, Europe, and the Middle East where she worked on a English/Hebrew/Arabic magazine.
Carrie is married to a starving engineer student and has two girls that she likes to dress up in small animal suits for Halloween. She's also begun training for triathlons.
