Krista Tippett
SHE/HER | FOUNDER, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, & HOST OF ON BEING
Krista Tippett is a Peabody-award-winning broadcaster, National Humanities Medalist, and New York Times bestselling author. She created and hosts On Being, a podcast that originated on public radio and has been downloaded/played over 400 million times. Krista’s conversations—at the intersection of spiritual inquiry, science, social creativity, and the arts— take up the ancient, animating questions of humanity amid 21st-century realities: What does it mean to be human, how do we want to live, and who will we be to each other? Krista grew up in a small town in Oklahoma, attended Brown University, worked as a young journalist and diplomat in Cold War Berlin, and later received a master of divinity from Yale. She was awarded a National Humanities Medal from President Obama at the White House in 2014 for “thoughtfully delving into the mysteries of human existence.” Among recent honors, she has received a Four Freedoms medal from the Roosevelt Institute and served as a Distinguished Visitor at Stanford’s Haas Center for Public Service. Her honorary doctorates include Yale University and Middlebury College. Her most recent book is Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living.