Background
Kobersteen, Kent was born in 1948 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.
Kobersteen, Kent was born in 1948 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.
Attended, University of Minnesota.
Staff photo. Minnesota Tribune, 1965, editor, 1981. Illustrated editor National Geo. magazine, 1983, director of photograph, 1998. Kobersteen's work for the Minneapolis Tribune took him throughout the United States and Canada and to more than 25 other countries.
His duties at National Geo. have sent him to Europe, Africa, the Arctic, Latin American and the Caribbean. He received recognition for his work on the drought in Africa's Sahel, Cuba under Castro, the major oil-producing nations and global poverty.
Member of Board of Visitors of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.