Kajsa Kedefors - Print, digital and audio journalist

Kajsa Kedefors is a senior at Boston University pursuing a joint philosophy and psychology major. She also majors in independent studies, a major with a course curriculum she created with faculty approval concentrating in social science and public policy. She minors in journalism. 

 

Kajsa is a Living/Arts co-op at The Boston Globe where she's interviewed lawyers, politicians, doctors, academics, celebrities, rap artists and leaders from a diversity of organizations. She's also worked as an E2AC podcast intern and a NextEd research intern, and her work has been published in GBH. At Boston University, she's written features and breaking news stories for the Daily Free Press and worked as an arts and culture reporter at WTBU radio. She also served as an editor for BU’s international philosophy journal Arché. In 2022, she spent the summer analyzing comprehensive surveys from incarcerated people in Massachusetts about racism in prison through the Prisoners' Legal Services of Massachusetts' Racial Equity in Corrections Initiative. She is currently leading an initiative to instate a BU course inside Suffolk County Jail combining traditional BU students and incarcerated students. In the summer of 2023, Kajsa pitched an independent investigative reporting project to BU's competitive Undergraduate Opportunities Research Program, and received a grant for the work, which remains ongoing.

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Kajsa enjoys stand-up comedy, backpacking, memoirs, running, Afrobeats and red wine. She worked as a bartender in Sweden, and lived in Spain for six months in Barcelona and Madrid where she studied linguistics and Spanish history and culture. Some figures she admires other than Ira Glass (a given) include writer and comedian David Sedaris, Belgian psychotherapist/part-time god Esther Perel and audio reporter Susan Burton. She has a goal to listen to all of the This American Life episodes. She's still working on it.