Biography
Bazi Kanani is a news host for Colorado Public Radio’s Morning Edition program. She’s an experienced journalist with an interest in how evolving technology can be used to strengthen fact-based independent media.
Prior to joining CPR News, Bazi worked for ABC News where she held reporting assignments in the bureaus in Washington, D.C., and Nairobi, Kenya. Before returning to her home state of Colorado in 2021, Bazi lived in central Mexico where she and her family studied Spanish language and Mexican culture.
Bazi’s work has been recognized with multiple awards including a Gracie Award for her reporting on ABC’s Nightline about an impending humanitarian crisis in the Sahel region of western Africa and regional Murrow and Emmy awards for documentaries she produced in Rwanda and Tanzania.
