Sean Carberry (he/him)

Sean Carberry joined Momma on October 19, 2026 for a live Q&A via Twitch and YouTube to talk about The News, Journalism & Mental Health

About Sean

Sean Carberry is an award-winning journalist, writer, and editor. In more than 15 years as a radio and print correspondent, he reported from dozens of countries, including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen, and served as NPR's last Kabul-based correspondent from 2012 to 2014. He is the author of the memoir Passport Stamps: Searching the World for a War to Call Home. Doubling Down picks up where that book left off: the years after the war zones, when the danger followed him home in stranger forms.

He has a B.A. from Lehigh University and an M.P.A. from the Harvard Kennedy School—credentials that did not, it turns out, prevent him from feeding great sums of money into video poker machines. He lives in Washington, D.C., with Squeak, the cat he rescued from the streets of Kabul who has since been rescuing him.

Socials / Links for Guest Connection

• Website - https://doublingdown.net/

• Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SeanDCarberry/

• Twitter / X - https://x.com/sdcarberry17

• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sdcarberry/

• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/seandcarberry/

• Passport Stamps - https://www.passportstamps.net/

References / Things Mentioned During the Stream

• Movie Mention: Young Frankenstein 

• Trauma Informed Journalism

• Nowzad Animal Charity 

• Book Recommendation: This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald