She previously worked as a photographer at the Washington Post and for Knight-Ridder Tribune Photo Service as a lead photographer and editor. Kahn has traveled on assignment to Afghanistan, Haiti, India, Guyana, Egypt, and Tunisia. In 2011, Kahn and her colleagues at The Washington Post, Carol Guzy and Ricky Carioti won a Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography “for their up-close portrait of grief and desperation after a catastrophic earthquake struck Haiti.” Kahn’s work has been featured in group exhibitions by the White House News Photographers Association and the Newseum in Washington, D.C.