Kelly McEvers is a national NPR correspondent. She previously ran NPR’s Beirut bureau, where she earned a George Foster Peabody, an Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia award, a Gracie award, and an Overseas Press Club mention for her 2012 coverage of the Syrian conflict. She started her journalism career in 1997 at the Chicago Tribune, where she worked as a metro reporter and documented the lives of female gang members for the Sunday magazine. Her writing also has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Foreign Policy, the New Republic, the New York Review of Books, the Washington Monthly, Slate, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Her work has aired on This American Life, The World, and the BBC. She’s taught radio and journalism in the United States and abroad. She lives with her family in California, where she’s still very bad at surfing. |
