Chloe Veltman
Correspondent, Culture Desk
Chloe Veltman is a correspondent on NPR's Culture Desk.
Her careening approach to her beat has led to stories about the role of hip-hop in moving along the national conversation around Reparations; a look at the soap opera 'Dynasty' as a trailblazer in the representation of LGBTQ+ characters on mainstream TV; the outsize impact of a tiny Ukraininan newspaper on the west coast in galvanizing community support around the war; and the complex relationship humans have with our ever-more-human seeming digital assistants. (Veltman even got her own voice cloned for this story.)
Before joining NPR in July 2022, Veltman worked for a couple of Member stations. She was an arts and culture reporter and senior arts editor at KQED in San Francisco, and launched and led the arts and culture bureau at Colorado Public Radio in Denver.
Veltman's foray into public media grew out of her work as an award-winning print journalist and podcaster. Before winning a John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University in 2011, she was the Bay Area's culture columnist for The New York Times and the founder, and host and executive producer of VoiceBox, a weekly podcast/radio show and live events series all about the human voice.
Being a voice nerd, Veltman loves to sing. She has an annoying habit of making up jingles about her cat, Mishka.
Veltman came to the U.S. as a grad student and has lived here ever since. When NPR offered her the job, she said she was "exceedingly chuffed" — (translation: "totally stoked") — proving the old adage that you can take the girl out of England but you can't take England out of the girl.
