From PBS NewsHour to Primetime Live, Harpo, Dateline, 60 Minutes and the Today Show Kahng has dedicated her career to investigating human rights abuses domestically and abroad. She has also edited two WSJ best-selling books on leadership, including BETTER TOGETHER: 8 Ways Working With Women Creates Extraordinary Products and Profits.
Her groundbreaking investigative reporting from Iran Contra to the heroics of United Flight #93 on 9/11 has led to significant shifts in policy and reform at the highest levels of government. After 9/11 coverage, founded Santoki Productions which provides premium content to all major broadcast and cable channels.
Recently, Grace was thrilled to learn that her coverage of Michael Jordan was featured throughout the ESPN/Netflix documentary series, THE LAST DANCE. Traveling with Jordan following the Chicago Bulls’ first three-peat remains one of her career highlights.
Other career highlights include exposing U.S government malfeasance in the rape and torture of an American nun in Guatemala, the illegal dumping of military toxic waste by the Pentagon, and the ’92 groundbreaking reporting on the largest case of priest pedophilia and cover-up by the Catholic church. In 2005, Santoki Productions began its human trafficking series Sex Slaves in America, with a mission to raise awareness and expose the explosion of the black market sale of sex based on the enslavement of women and children in the U.S.
Raised by Korean pioneers in West Central Minnesota, Kahng studied at Medill and received her degree in Radio/TV/Film at Northwestern University. In 1993, The University of Chicago awarded her a William Benton Fellowship. She lives in San Francisco with two sons who attend Middlebury College and UC Berkeley, and their dog, Archie.