Jennifer Kahn
Lecturer
Continuing Lecturer
Alumni
Website
Jennifer Kahn is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, and has been a regular feature writer for The New Yorker, National Geographic, and Wired, among others. Her work has been selected for the Best American Science Writing series four times, and has explored subjects ranging from the “rational self-help” movement in Silicon valley, to the challenge of identifying and treating child psychopaths. Since 2009, she has taught in the Magazine Program at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and was a visiting Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton in 2015. Her 2016 TED talk on CRISPR and gene drives has been viewed more than 1.4 million times, and was named one of the top TED talks of 2016 by conference organizers.
More at http://www.jenniferkahn.com/
EDUCATION
Princeton University (BA)UC Berkeley (MA)
EMPLOYERS
UC Berkeley Graduate School of JournalismNew York Times Magazine (Contributing Writer)