Kat Chow
Kat Chow is a reporter with NPR and a founding member of the . She is currently on sabbatical, working on her first book (forthcoming from Grand Central Publishing/Hachette). It's a memoir that digs into the questions about grief, race and identity that her mother's sudden death triggered when Kat was young.
For NPR, she's reported on , , and the aftermath of a violent hate crime. Her cultural criticism has led her on explorations of in TV, film, and theater; the ; ; and . She's an occasional fourth chair on as well as a guest host on Slate's podcast . Her work has garnered her a national award from the Asian American Journalists Association, and she was an inaugural recipient of the Yi Dae Up fellowship at the . She has led master classes and spoken about her reporting in Amsterdam, Minneapolis, Valparaiso, Louisville, Boston and Seattle.
She's drawn to stories about race, gender and generational differences
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From a teenager's encounter to today's revelations about Harvey Weinstein, Charlie Rose and so many more,a writer wrestles with the ways women are taught to doubt their own experiences. -
As more information about the shooting that killed five police officers surfaces, we asked people from Dallas to share their stories about how conversations around race and policing are shifting. -
Irving police say they won’t file charges against a Muslim teenager who brought a homemade clock to school that was mistaken for a bomb.
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Telemundo announced that its telenovela El Señor de los Cielos(Lord of the Skies) will be back for an unheard of second season. This is a radical departure from traditional telenovelas, which have a clear beginning and a definitive ending.
