Kat Snow came to KQED in the summer of 2002, after steering the news staff at Salt Lake City
station KUER through the 2002 Winter Olympics and a format change to an all-news station.
Prior to her two years there as news director, Kat reported for six years on statewide issues
at KUER, covering legislative politics, mental health, poverty, polygamy, land wars, and the
cultural conflict between the LDS Church and non-Mormons in Utah. Kat directed the news
staff's election coverage through three collaborative projects in civic journalism, leading
to top awards for the station's citizen panel debates with candidates and teen politics
documentaries.
Kat began working in radio 20 years ago at KMUN in Astoria, on the northern tip of the Oregon
Coast. She has freelanced in radio and print, with credits in Newsweek, The Atlantic,
MonitorRadio, NPR, the North Coast Times Eagle and several public radio stations and regional
magazines in Oregon and Washington. She has won statewide and national awards for her
individual work and for team projects.
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