Kat Chow
American author and journalist
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Kat Chow is an Asian-American author and journalist who was a founding member of the National Public Radio show and podcast Code Switch.[1][2][3] She has also been a regular panelist on the NPR podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour.[4] In 2021, her book Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir was released,[5] which discussed her family's immigration to the United States via Hong Kong and Cuba,[1] life at age 13, and losing her mother to cancer in 2004.[6][7][8]
Kat Chow | |
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| Born | Katherine Wei-Sen Chow United States |
| Education | Brown University |
| Occupations | Journalist, author |
| Years active | 2010s–present |
| Employer | NPR (former) |
| Known for | Cultural reporting; memoir Seeing Ghosts |
| Notable work | Seeing Ghosts |
Chow earned her B.A. in journalism from the University of Washington, with a minor in diversity from the Department of American Ethnic Studies in 2012. In 2019, she was presented with the University of Washington Honors Alumna award.[9] She was the recipient of the Asian American Journalists Association 2015 National Journalism Award for reporting Asian American Pacific Islander Issues on Radio/Audio in her piece on "How The 'Kung Fu Fighting' Melody Came To Represent Asia."[10][11]
