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. 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.
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.
References
External links This American Life Radio Archive by Contributor - Chana Joffe-Walt Planet Money Blog post