Jennifer Kahn

Contributing Writer

NY Times

Head of the Narrative Program

Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley

Jennifer Kahn is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, and has been a regular feature writer for The New Yorker, National Geographic, and Wired, among others. She is currently the Narrative Program Lead at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and was a visiting Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton in 2015. Her 2016 TED talk on CRISPR and gene drives has been viewed more than 1.8 million times, and was named one of the top TED talks of 2016 by conference organizers. Her most recent article, a cover story for the New York Times Magazine, explores the ongoing resistance to GMOs, and what, if anything, might change that.