About Alix Spiegal
Alix Spiegel is a NPR correspondent works on the Science desk and covers psychology. She has reported on everything from the psychological impact of killing another person, to the emotional devastation of Katrina, to psycho-therapeutic approaches to transgender children. Over the course of her career in public radio, Spiegel has won awards including the George Foster Peabody Award, Livingston Award, and Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, Spiegel graduated from Oberlin College. She began her career in radio in as one of the founding producers of the public radio show This American Life. She has also written for The New Yorker magazine and The New York Times.