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Carrie Kahn
Affiliation during program: KPBS-FM San Diego
Country Focus: Mexico

	Program: Fall 1999

As a reporter for NPR's National Desk, Carrie Kahn covers news from Los Angeles. Kahn's reports can be heard on NPR's award-winning news programs including "All Things Considered," "Morning Edition," "Weekend Edition," and "Latino USA." Before coming to NPR in 2004, Kahn worked for 2 1/2 years at NPR station KQED in San Francisco, first as an editor and then as a general assignment reporter with a focus on immigration reporting. From 1994 to 2001, Kahn was NPR station KPBS Radio's Border and Community Affairs reporter. She covered immigration, cross-border issues, and San Diego's ethnic communities. Kahn has frequently worked on assignment for NPR throughout Mexico, California, and in Littleton, Colorado. Before coming to KPBS, Kahn worked for NPR station KUSP and published a bilingual community newspaper in Santa Cruz, California. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Kahn received a Bachelors degree from UC Santa Cruz in Biology. For several years she was a human genetics researcher in California and in Costa Rica. She has traveled extensively throughout Mexico, Central America, Europe, and the Middle East where she worked on a English/Hebrew/Arabic magazine.

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