About

 
 

DJ Cashmere is an award-winning journalist. He serves as Senior Producer on The Ten Percent Happier Podcast with Dan Harris, where he produces interviews with leading scientists, meditation teachers, and mental health experts from around the world. His most recent freelance project is the public radio documentary No Excuses, for APM Reports, which won a 2022 National Award for Education Reporting from the Education Writers Association.

DJ has reported on education, politics, and culture for The New York Times, The Nation, The Village Voice, Chalkbeat, The Hechinger Report, Guernica, Yes! Magazine, The Millions, Public Books, and the Marketplace Morning Report, among others. He also produced the Primary Sources podcast, which was hosted by Eyal Press and featured guests including Rebecca Solnit and Ta-Nehisi Coates.

DJ lives with his wife and children in New York.