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Washington Post appoints Patel as deputy weather editor

Kasha Patel

Kasha Patel is joining The Washington Post as the Capital Weather Gang’s deputy weather editor.

She starts July 19.

Patel joins from NASA, where she was a digital storyteller for its Earth Observatory program. She was also a podcast host at Undark Magazine and a science writer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

Patel was also a science writer/media relation at Aurorasaurus, a citizen science project tracking auroras across the world via Twitter and the project’s website and free mobile apps.

She was also editor-in-chief, Science section, at the Boston University News Service. She was also an international reporter with the Boston University Program for Crisis Response and Reporting.

A graduate of Wake Forest University, Patel has a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and a master’s degree in science journalism from Boston University.

Mariam Ahmed

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