Krista Tippett is a Peabody award-winning broadcaster, New York Times bestselling author, and National Humanities Medalist. As the creator and host of public radio’s On Being, she takes up the great questions of meaning amidst the political, economic, cultural and technological shifts of 21st-century life. In 2013, Krista took On Being and its emergent Civil Conversations Project into independent production, creating "a social enterprise with a radio show at its heart," with a studio and public event space on Loring Park in Minneapolis. She grew up in Oklahoma, attended Brown University, was a journalist and diplomat in Cold War Berlin, and holds a masters of divinity from Yale. Her books include Einstein's God, Speaking of Faith, and most recently Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living.
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