Position/Organization:

Lecturer, Magazine Program, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism; Feature Writer, The New Yorker, Wired, National Geographic, and Outside magazine

Jennifer Kahn has been a contributing editor at Wired magazine since 2003, and a feature writer for The New Yorker, National Geographic, Outside, Mother Jones, and the New York Times, among others. Her work has been selected for the Best American Science Writing series four times in the past seven years, most recently for "A Cloud of Smoke," her New Yorker piece about a policeman whose death four years after 9/11 was not what it seemed. She is also featured in the anthology Best American Sports Writing 2010. A graduate of Princeton University and UC Berkeley, she has degrees in astrophysics and journalism. Since 2008, she has taught in the Magazine Program at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.