Meghna Chakrabarti
Meghna Chakrabarti | |
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| File:Secretary Conducts an Interview With WBUR-FM Host Meghna Chakrabarti in Cambridge, Massachusetts (32212111435).jpg Chakrabarti (center) interviewing John Kerry in 2017 | |
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| Alma mater | Oregon State University (BS) Harvard University (MS) Boston University (MBA) |
| Career | |
| Show | On Point |
| Network | WBUR |
| Country | United States |
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Meghna Chakrabarti is an American journalist and radio producer. She is the host of NPR's On Point. She was the long-time host for the Modern Love podcast (a collaboration between WBUR and The New York Times). She formerly hosted the WBUR local news program Radio Boston and was the primary fill-in host for Here & Now, produced by WBUR and distributed nationally by NPR.
Background
[edit | edit source]She has a Bachelor of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Oregon State University (1998), a Master of Science in Environmental Science and Risk Management from Harvard University (2001), and a Master of Business Administration - Finance Concentration (with an emphasis in Leadership and Organizational Change) from Boston University (2013).[1][2] Born in Boston to Mumbaikar immigrant parents, as a child Chakrabarti's family moved to Oregon where she was raised.[3][4]
Awards
[edit | edit source]She has received awards in reporting from the Associated Press and the Radio Television News Directors Association,[1] and her WBUR team shared the 2016 award for General Excellence in Radio/Audio from the Asian American Journalists Association.[5]
References
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External links
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- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Interview on Inkhouse
- WBUR staff bio
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- Oregon State University alumni
- Living people
- Harvard University alumni
- Radio personalities from Boston
- Boston University School of Management alumni
- Journalists from Massachusetts
- American people of Bengali descent
- American people of Indian descent
- NPR hosts
- Journalists from Oregon
- 21st-century American women journalists
- 21st-century American journalists
- American radio people stubs