Kavitha Cardoza

Kavitha Cardoza is an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Richmond. She has covered children, education, health and poverty for more than two decades. She has been a frequent contributor to NPR and The Hechinger Report, and her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, The 19th, The Guardian, and BBC World News, among others. She has previously worked as an education correspondent for PBS Newshour/Education Week, at NPR affiliates in Washington D.C. and Illinois and has been public editor at the Education Writers Association.

Kavitha was a 2021 Spencer Education Journalism Fellow reporting at Columbia University and has received numerous awards for her reporting. She has published several academic papers on communication and holds a master’s degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a master’s degree in communications from Manipal University, India.