Brian Kahn (1947-2020) was an American attorney, author, journalist, and public radio host. He founded the weekly public affairs program Home Ground which is broadcast on 30+ stations/translators in the Rocky Mountain west.[1] On the air since 1996, it was named Montana's Outstanding Non-Commercial Radio Program in 2002.[2] Kahn won the 2009 Montana Governor's Award for the Humanities.
Kahn was born in New York and moved to California as a child. He was an amateur boxer while in school and while he attended law school at the University of California, Berkeley he also coached boxing. the youngest person elected to the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors and sat on the California Fish and Game Commission. He moved to Montana in the late 1980s and was the director of the Montana Nature Conservancy.[1][3]
His book Real Common Sense, "a well-written, well-intentioned reflection on what it means to be a citizen in today's imperfect America," was published in 2011 by Seven Stories Press.[4] Rediscovering My Country was published in 2015 and presented at the Havana International Book Fair.