Ailsa Chang

Ailsa Chang (; born January 12, 1976) is an American journalist. She is a host of the NPR news magazine All Things Considered. She is a former host of Planet Money and previously covered the United States Congress for NPR. Prior to joining NPR in 2012, Chang was an investigative journalist at NPR member station WNYC in New York City. Since starting as a radio reporter in 2009, she has received numerous national awards for investigative reporting.

Early life and education Chang was born to a Taiwanese American family. She grew up in Los Altos, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area.

After graduating from Mountain View High School, Chang attended Stanford University and earned a Bachelor of Arts in public policy in 1998. She then earned a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Stanford Law School in 2001. In 2008, she completed a master's degree in journalism at Columbia University. She returned to school and earned a master's degree in journalism at Columbia University. The piece, which aired on NPR in 2009, was awarded the 2010 Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize.

She returned to KQED as a reporter, before joining WNYC in 2009, where she covered criminal justice, terrorism and the courts. The series, which aired on NPR in 2011, earned her a silver baton in the 2012 Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Awards.

Chang returned to NPR in 2012. She was a correspondent for Planet Money and also reported on U.S. Congress activities, specifically immigration, healthcare and gun control. 2011: Art Athens Award for General Excellence in Individual Reporting for radio