Meghna Chakrabarti

Radio Boston

Meghna is reporter and fill-in host for Radio Boston, WBUR's new weekly program. She previously reported on energy and the environment for WBUR, and hosted the Rhode Island Public Radio show, Not Your Classroom.

She produced and directed WBUR's award winning news and talk show, On Point. That meant everything from throwing herself into post-show conversational dust-ups with Niall Ferguson, to praying Rev. Jesse Jackson would stop stuffing his mouth with popcorn before On Point went live with him at the 2004 Democratic National Convention.

Her path to public radio began with a couple of degrees in environmental sciences from Oregon State University, and a masters at Harvard University. Stops along the way included summers performing engineering failure analysis, teaching human physiology, working under the table at a Sienese cafe, a turn as assistant curator for space technology at London's National Science Museum, researching flood control solutions for Venice, Italy, and writing two unpublished manuscripts.

She speaks French badly. Enough Italian to get into trouble. And is learning Hindi by subjecting herself to a long series of Bollywood films.