Krista Tippett graduated from Brown University in 1983. After earning her degree, she traveled on a Fulbright scholarship to study at the University of Bonn in West Germany, where she wrote for The New York Times in divided Berlin as a freelance foreign correspondent. Krista went on to earn a Masters of Divinity from Yale University in 1994. It is said that, while conducting a global oral-history project for the Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research at St. John’s Abbey of Collegeville, Minnesota, she began laying out the idea of what would go on to become her radio show, On Being. Tippett would also go on to found “The Civil Conversations Project,” which she has described as “an emergent approach to healing our fractured civic spaces”. In 2008, her efforts in Speaking of Faith-The Ecstatic Faith of Rumi would win her a Peabody Award and then, in 2014, she would go on to win a National Humanities Medal at the White House for “thoughtfully delving into the mysterie…
