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Katherine Lanpher
Katherine Lanpher is a writer, broadcaster and teacher based in Brooklyn. Her essays, opeds and travel writing have appeared in the New York Times, MORE, Marie-Claire and Slate.com, while her work as a host has been heard on WNYC in New York, on WBEZ in Chicago and on a weekly financial podcast on TIME.com.
She is the recipient of a Gracie Award for best national radio magazine show from the Foundation of American Women in Radio and Television for her work as host and creator of “MORE Time,’’ an hour-long show that broadcast on XM Satellite Radio.
In addition, she teaches across the country for The OpEd Project, a social venture designed to bring more minority voices into the arena of public opinion. She also currently serves as the director of The Yale Public Voices Fellowship Program, working directly with 20 senior faculty members on their opeds and thought leadership.
She is a public radio veteran who hosted “Midmorning,’’ a weekday call-in show on Minnesota Public Radio for more than six years, covering local to international events for a six-state region. She moved to Manhattan in 2004 to serve as the co-host for “The Al Franken Show’’ as heard on Air America and seen on The Sundance Channel.
Her 2006 memoir, “Leap Days,’’ an account of a simultaneous move to Manhattan and midlife, received four stars from People magazine and was reviewed in the New York Times and featured on NPR’s “Talk of the Nation. She received her undergraduate degree in journalism from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois and a master’s degree in American Cultural History from the University of Chicago.
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