Tamara Dawnell Keith (born September 25, 1979) is NPR White House correspondent and co-host, with Scott Detrow, of the NPR Politics Podcast, joining as a business reporter in 2009. She covered the earthquake in Haiti and hosted B-side Radio, a 72-episode public radio podcast, from 2001 until 2010. She regularly appeared on the PBS NewsHour weekly segment "Politics Monday", until it was abruptly cancelled. Keith was on the board of the White House Correspondents' Association, of which she is also the president. Keith, in 2007, received first-place in the category "Outstanding Story, Radio" for "Overcrowded Prisons' Wastewater Poses Environmental Hazard (Mule Creek Prison)" on The California Report from the Society of Environmental Journalists in the sixth annual contest. Life Keith's family moved to Hanford, California, when she was eight years old. She started in radio as a "teen essayist" for NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday. She graduated from high school early, received a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley in three years, and enrolled at the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism at age 19. Keith has a graduate degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley. She has worked for KQED, WOSU-FM, and KPCC. Keith's husband, Ira Gordon, is a cancer researcher and veterinarian. Keith was raised Methodist and is a convert to Judaism, the religion of her husband. References External links Tamara Keith's Website B-side Radio Tamara Keith's Photo 1979 births Living people American radio reporters and correspondents Jewish American journalists University of California, Berkeley alumni UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism alumni PBS people American women radio journalists 21st-century American Jews 21st-century American women