Dina Temple-Raston
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Dina Temple-Raston | |
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| Born | 25 August 1965 |
| Education | Redwood High School Northwestern University (BA) Liaoning University Columbia University |
| Occupations | Author; Journalist, Podcaster |
Dina Temple-Raston is a Belgian-born American journalist and award-winning author. Temple-Raston is host and executive producer of the podcast Click Here, and freelances for shows including Marketplace and The World.[1][2][3]
She is a former member of NPR's investigative team and was previously the creator, host, and correspondent of NPR's "I'll Be Seeing You" radio specials on technologies that watch us. She also created, hosted and reported an Audible podcast called What Were You Thinking, which told the stories of teenagers who had made bad choices and analyzed the impulses behind them.
Temple-Raston had previously served as NPR's counter-terrorism correspondent for more than a decade and she is the author of four award-winning books of narrative non-fiction including A Death in Texas: A Story of Race, Murder and a Small Town's Struggle for Redemption, about the James Byrd murder in Jasper, Texas; and "The Jihad Next Door: Rough Justice in the Age of Terror," which looks at being Muslim in America post 9/11.
Temple-Raston was born in Brussels, Belgium, on 25 August 1964 or 1965.[4] Her first language was French. She graduated from Redwood High School in Larkspur, California, in 1982. She received her Bachelor of Arts with honors from Northwestern University in 1986. She went on to study at Liaoning University, Shenyang, China, graduating with a degree in Chinese Language in 1989. In 2006, she earned a master's degree in journalism from New York's Columbia University.
