10 Facts About Krista Tippett

Krista Tippett is an American journalist, author, and public intellectual.

In 2014, Tippett was awarded the National Humanities Medal by US President Barack Obama.

In 2025 Krista Tippett was named a Chubb Fellow at Yale University.

Krista Tippett wrote about her experiences in Rostock in "They Just Say 'Over There'" published by Die Zeit.

Krista Tippett reported and wrote for The Times, Newsweek, the BBC, the International Herald Tribune, and Die Zeit.

In 1986, Tippett became a special political assistant to the senior United States diplomat in West Berlin, John C Kornblum.

Krista Tippett has written that moral questions arising from that experience of seeing "high power, up close" eventually led to the spiritual, philosophical, and theological curiosities that have defined her work since.

Krista Tippett received a Master of Divinity from Yale University in 1994.

Krista Tippett proposed a show about religion to Minnesota Public Radio in the late 1990s.

Krista Tippett's book, Einstein's God, was a New York Times bestseller.