Anjali Kamat

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Anjali Kamat (Columbia Journalism School, Professional Prizes)

Anjali Kamat covers Wall Street, real estate, and the intersection of money and politics for WNYC.

Her stories have focused on Opportunity Zones, the privatization of public housing, predatory lending, and in collaboration with Type Investigations, the Trump Organization's extensive business dealings in India, which was part of the duPont award-winning first season of the Trump, Inc. podcast and a cover story for the New Republic.  

Previously, Anjali was the 2017-18 Belle Zeller Visiting Professor of Public Policy at Brooklyn College. She spent nearly 5 years before that as a correspondent and producer at Al Jazeera's current affairs documentary show, Fault Lines, where her reporting from won several awards including a Peabody and four Emmy nominations for investigative journalism, business reporting, and breaking news reporting.

She spent 2011 reporting on the Arab uprisings from Egypt and Libya as a correspondent for Democracy Now!, where she had been a producer and co-host for four years. 

Anjali has an MA in Near Eastern Studies from NYU, a post-graduate diploma from the Asian College of Journalism, and a BA in history from Pomona College. She grew up in Chennai, when it was still called Madras, and has called New York City home since 2002.