Kerry Bringhurst is news director and Morning Edition host for Utah Public Radio (KUSU-FM), an NPR member station in Logan, Utah. She serves as a host of a locally produced daily call-in program, Access Utah, conducting in-depth interviews and producing feature segments. Her reports are heard on UPR during All Things Considered, Morning Edition and Access Utah. She has also reported for KUER in Salt Lake City.

Traveling throughout Utah on assignment, Bringhurst prepares reports about nuclear waste disposal, bio-fuel research and space dynamics. Having grown up surrounded by numerous national parks such as Yellowstone, Zion and Grand Canyon National Park, she has developed an appreciation for the natural and environmental sciences.

A graduate of Utah State University, she was named the J-COM Broadcaster of the Year. Her journalism career began at the age of 14 when she was hired by KVEL-AM/FM in Vernal, Utah, as an evening and weekend news reporter. She worked in commercial radio during college and then managed public relations for the Old Lyric Repertory Theatre Company before being hired as reporter/producer for UPR. After fours years with the station she took a 14-year leave to work as the full-time mother of four boys. In 2008, Bringhurst returned to UPR as Morning Edition host, where she incorporates locally produced news into the national program format. As news director, she has established an internship and mentoring program, and she provides staff training. When she isn't shuttling boys to and from soccer and basketball practice, she volunteers as a regional representative for a Japanese exchange organization. She spent a month in Japan during the summer of 2009.