Ibby Caputo
Ibby Caputo is a widely published journalist and writer. Her audio journalism has aired on the BBC World Service and Radio 4, on The Economist’s podcast The Weekend Intelligence, National Public Radio in the United States, Australian Public Broadcasting, and elsewhere. Ibby was the Senior Editor of Overheard at National Geographic for the first three seasons, as well as the Interim Executive Producer for the third season. She has taught audio journalism at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City, and podcasting at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Ibby’s essays have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Slate. For many years she was a recurring guest speaker at Harvard Divinity School, speaking to chaplaincy classes about patient resilience and healthcare-related topics. In 2022, she edited a book on Buddhist mind training techniques called The Power of Mind: A Tibetan Monk’s Guide to Finding Freedom in Every Challenge, written by Khentrul Lodrö T’hayé Rinpoche, and published by Shambhala Publications.









