Lu Ann Cahn is the Director of Career Services for Klein College of Media and Communication at Temple University in Philadelphia. She is also an eight time Emmy award winning journalist, author and motivational speaker.

 

As Director of Career Services at Klein College, Cahn helps launch the next generation of communicators into the life and career they want. She mentors, dares, coaches and oversees internships, career fairs, workshops and employee relations for almost 3-thousand students in the program.

 

Prior to coming to Klein College in 2015, Cahn was a veteran TV News Reporter. She is well known in Philadelphia where she worked for WCAU-TV for 27 years. Cahn filled many roles —breaking news reporter, anchor and entertainment show host – but is most well known for her years as a hard-charging investigative reporter with a talent for uncovering scandals and scams. In 2005, Lu Ann won a National Emmy for her undercover investigative story “Dirty Little Secret” about an illegal bar run by elected officials in their dry town.

 

While working as a reporter Cahn became a professional speaker and the author of the inspirational memoir I Dare Me, an entertaining look back on a year that changed everything for her. The book, published by Penguin/RandomHouse, grew out of a blog which chronicled this veteran journalist, mother and two time cancer survivor’s adventures trying something new every single day to get her life “unstuck".

 

In 1991 Cahn made local and national news when she publicly told her story of battling breast cancer after a missed diagnosis when she was only 35. Her 1992 special report “Breast Cancer: My Personal Story” won her a national Clarion award and two Mid Atlantic Regional Emmys.

 

Cahn also had surgery for ulcerative colitis and kidney cancer. She regularly speaks on behalf of Living Beyond Breast Cancer, other area cancer support groups and the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America. She hopes her survivor experience inspires others.

 

Earlier in her career Cahn worked at stations in Jacksonville, Florida; Chattanooga, Tennessee; Huntsville, Alabama; Little Rock, Arkansas; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Miami, Florida.

 

A native of Columbus, Ohio, Cahn grew up in Atlanta and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Georgia. She is married to retired NBC10 Photojournalist Phil Houser.