Joffe-Walt's parents, Brian Walt[1] and activist Zara Joffe, are South African.

She was later a reporter for the Seattle radio station KPLU and a freelancer for NPR before being recruited to work for Planet Money.

In 2020, the New York Times published Nice White Parents, a five-part podcast reported by Joffe-Walt.

[5] In 2016, Joffe-Walt, along with Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ira Glass, won a Peabody Award for an episode of This American Life on school segregation and education.

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