Dawn Kawamoto
Staff Reporter at Built In
Expertise: Careers, workplace and tech
Education: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Dawn Kawamoto is a Built In staff reporter covering workplace trends, with a focus on tech workers and HR.
She has written and edited for publications including technology careers site Dice, where she was an Associate Editor, and also CNET, where she was News.com's first business editor and a long-time business tech reporter. While working at CNET, Kawamoto received national journalism awards from Sigma Delta Chi and the distinguished Gerald Loeb Awards.
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