Kat Chow

Kat Chow is an Asian-American author and journalist who was a founding member of the National Public Radio show and podcast Code Switch.^[1][2][3] She has also been a regular panelist on the NPR podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour.^[4] In 2021, her book Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir was released,^[5] which discussed her family's immigration to the United States via Hong Kong and Cuba,^[1] life at age 13, and losing her mother to cancer in 2004.^[6][7][8]

Chow earned her B.A. in journalism from the University of Washington, with a minor in diversity from the Department of American Ethnic Studies in 2012. In 2019, she was presented with the University of Washington Honors Alumna award.^[9] She was the recipient of the Asian American Journalists Association 2015 National Journalism Award for reporting Asian American Pacific Islander Issues on Radio/Audio in her piece on "How The 'Kung Fu Fighting' Melody Came To Represent Asia."^[10][11]