2026 Awards

Jennifer Karson-Strauss

Talent

Producer at ESPN

Jennifer Karson-Strauss is an Emmy Award–winning documentary director and producer at ESPN. Originally from Frazier Park, California, she played Division I soccer at Pepperdine University before building a career in sports storytelling. Her work includes Save: The Katie Meyer Story, which received a Sports Emmy for Outstanding Journalism, and No Place Like Nebraska, an intimate look at Nebraska’s women’s volleyball team. Through these films, she explores the lives behind athletic achievement, bringing attention to mental health, personal loss, and the pressures facing student-athletes.

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