Karen Lowe was awarded a grant for her project “The Age Bomb, a series of radio pieces on the phenomenon of the world’s fast-growing aging population. Karen has reported for This American Life, worked as the foreign editor at Marketplace Radio and was a reporter and editor for Agence France-Presse. She is the Creator and Executive Producer of Bending Borders, a radio and multimedia production project that connects people from around the world through shared human experiences