| Chana Joffe-Walt | |
| Alma Mater: | Oberlin College |
| Occupation: | Radio producer |
| Employer: | This American Life |
| Awards: | 2016 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.
Joffe-Walt's parents, Brian Walt[1] and activist Zara Joffe, are South African.[2] She graduated from Oberlin College in 2003.
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.[3] 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.[4]
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.[5]