Diane Rehm

Diane Rehm is a native Washingtonian who began a radio career in 1973 as an assistant producer for talk shows at WAMU radio. She became host and producer of two health-oriented programs, Mind and Body and Health Call. In 1979, Rehm was selected as host of WAMU's morning talk show, Kaleidoscope, which was renamed The Diane Rehm Show in 1984.

She has offered Washington, D.C., listeners the opportunity to hear and participate in a thoughtful and lively dialogue on an enormous array of topics with many of the most distinguished people including Vice President Al Gore, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, General Colin Powell, Labor Secretary Alexis Herman, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, novelists John Grisham and Nadine Gordimer and former Christian Coalition director Ralph Reed.

In November 1997, Rehm won an award from Women Work! The National Network for Women's Employment. Washingtonian magazine named her one of the city's 100 Most Powerful Women in November 1997 as well as one of the Washington area's Top 50 Journalists in its August 1997 issue. In March 1997, Rehm received a national first place Wilbur Award from The Religious Public Relations Council, Inc. for her program featuring former president Jimmy Carter. Later that month, Rehm accepted a Sarah's Circle Award from the Women's Institute of the College of Notre Dame of Maryland. The award celebrates the diversity and strength of women's spiritual presence in the world.

A significant landmark in Rehm's life and career occurred in June 1998, when she was diagnosed with spasmodic dysphonia, a neurological condition which had caused her speech to become strained and difficult. She wrote several articles and produced a program about the little-known disorder and was awarded a Communication Award for her efforts by the National Council on Communicative Disorders and a Media Award from the Maryland Speech-Hearing-Language Association.

Rehm is a member of the board of the PEN/Faulkner Award Foundation and is on the Western Maryland College (Westminster, Maryland) board of trustees. Her memoir, Finding My Voice, was published in August 1999 by Knopf.

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