About Chana Joffe-Walt
Chana Joffe-Walt was an American journalist and radio producer.
Chana Joffe-Walt is a radio journalist and producer. She has worked for Planet Money and This American Life.
Early life Joffe-Walt's parents, Brian Walt and activist Zara Joffe, are South African. She graduated from Oberlin College in 2003.
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.
Awards Joffe-Walt has twice been awarded a Peabody Award. The first was awarded in 2015 along with Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ira Glass for an episode of This American Life on school segregation and education. The second was awarded in 2024 for a This American Life episode focusing on the everyday struggles of normal people during the height of the Gaza conflict that year.
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