Deepa Fernandes
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Radio host and reporter Deepa Fernandes has informed audiences through poignant and pointed reporting heard across the NPR and BBC networks.
Fernandes is a fellow at Stanford University's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS). Most recently she was a co-host of NPR's Here & Now, and before that she wrote for the San Francisco Chronicle.
Fernandes pioneered the beat of early childhood development for Los Angeles NPR station KPCC before any other outlets had such a reporter.
Her first book published in 2007, titled Targeted: Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration, which predicted the rise of white supremacist immigration policies taking root in the United States.
Her work has won dozens of awards, including an L.A. Emmy and Reporter of the Year three times in a row from the L.A. Press Club.
Her career began in Sydney, Australia, at college radio station 2SER. She later moved to New York City, where she produced and hosted shows on WBAI. She started a youth media training program in New York public schools that grew to become a national media training organization, People's Production House, aimed at diversifying journalism.
Fernandes got her master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. She received a John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford.
