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1A

1A aspires to be the most important daily conversation about cutting edge issues. The show takes a deep and unflinching look at America, bringing context and insight to stories unfolding across the country and the world. 1A explores policy, politics, and technology, while also delving into lighter subjects: pop culture, sports and humor.

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Bullseye

Bullseye

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Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a weekly conversation about the best of arts and culture. Bullseye offers compelling conversati

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a weekly conversation about the best of arts and culture. Bullseye offers compelling conversations with the most talked-about and on-the-rise guests in pop culture today. Discover the diversity & range of guests on Bullseye.

Wait Wait Don't Tell Me

Wait Wait Don't Tell Me

Next Airs Today at 6 pm
1 hr

Test your knowledge against some of the best and brightest in the news and entertainment world while figuring out what's rea

Test your knowledge against some of the best and brightest in the news and entertainment world while figuring out what's real news and what's made up with NPR's weekly hour-long quiz program.

It's Been A Minute

It's Been A Minute

Next Airs Today at 7 pm
1 hr

It's Been A Minute

It's Been A Minute

Fresh Air Weekend

Fresh Air Weekend

Next Airs Today at 8 pm
1 hr

Terry Gross is known for her fearless and insightful interviews with prominent figures in American arts, politics and popula

Terry Gross is known for her fearless and insightful interviews with prominent figures in American arts, politics and popular culture. This program features reports and reviews from critics and commentators on music, books, movies, and other cultural phenomena from the national psyche.

Mountain Stage

Mountain Stage

Next Airs Today at 9 pm
2 hrs

All Songs Considered

All Songs Considered

Next Airs Today at 11 pm
30 mins

Hosts/nerds Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton are your friendly music buddies with the week's best new music discoveries, includin

Hosts/nerds Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton are your friendly music buddies with the week's best new music discoveries, including conversations with emerging artists, icons and more.

Alt.Latino

Alt.Latino

Next Airs Today at 11:30 pm
30 mins

Latino arts and culture explained with music and conversation, presented by Anamaria Sayre & Felix Contreras.

Latino arts and culture explained with music and conversation, presented by Anamaria Sayre & Felix Contreras.

Code Switch & Life Kit

Code Switch & Life Kit

Next Airs Tomorrow at 4 am
1 hr

Listeners will hear stories about race and identity that expand their minds, and learn practical ways to make their lives be

Listeners will hear stories about race and identity that expand their minds, and learn practical ways to make their lives better.

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain

Next Airs Tomorrow at 5 am
1 hr

Millions of people have heard Shankar Vedantam's engaging reports on social science research on NPR shows like Morning Editi

Millions of people have heard Shankar Vedantam's engaging reports on social science research on NPR shows like Morning Edition and his top podcast Hidden Brain. Shankar brings his signature knowledge, wit and sense of humor to this one-hour weekly program. A blend of science and storytelling, Hidden Brain reveals the patterns that drive human behavior, the biases that shape our choices, and the imperceptible forces that influence our relationships. It's a program that helps curious people understand the world, current events, and themselves.

Throughline

Throughline

Next Airs Tomorrow at 6 am
1 hr

Hosted by Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei, NPR’s history show provides the story and perspectives often missing from hi

Hosted by Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei, NPR’s history show provides the story and perspectives often missing from history textbooks to help you understand events in the news and ideas dominating our national conversations today.

Splendid Table

Splendid Table

Next Airs Tomorrow at 7 am
1 hr

A culinary, culture and lifestyle program celebrating food and its ability to touch lives and feed the soul. Award-winning h

A culinary, culture and lifestyle program celebrating food and its ability to touch lives and feed the soul. Award-winning host Lynne Rossetto Kasper leads a journey of the senses and hosts discussions with a variety of personalities who share their passion for culinary delights.

TED Radio Hour

TED Radio Hour

Next Airs Tomorrow at 8 am
1 hr

TED Radio Hour investigates the biggest questions of our time with the help of the world's greatest thinkers. Can we preserv

TED Radio Hour investigates the biggest questions of our time with the help of the world's greatest thinkers. Can we preserve our humanity in the digital age? Where does creativity come from? And what's the secret to living longer? In each episode, host Manoush Zomorodi explores a big idea through a series of TED Talks and original interviews, inspiring us to learn more about the world, our communities, and most importantly, ourselves.

Latino USA

Latino USA

Next Airs Tomorrow at 11 am
1 hr

Latino USA, the radio journal of news and culture, is the only nationally distributed English-language radio program produce

Latino USA, the radio journal of news and culture, is the only nationally distributed English-language radio program produced from a Latino perspective. It combines high-quality news, cultural and public affairs journalism to bring a rich understanding to a wide spectrum of listeners.

Conversations from the World Cafe

Conversations from the World Cafe

Next Airs Tomorrow at 9 pm
1 hr

Raina Douris presents interviews and performances from new and significant musicians who serve up a blend of blues, rock, wo

Raina Douris presents interviews and performances from new and significant musicians who serve up a blend of blues, rock, world, folk, and alternative country while exploring trends in contemporary music and culture.

Jazz Night In America

Jazz Night In America

Next Airs Tomorrow at 10 pm
1 hr

Hosted by multiple Grammy Award-winning musician Christian McBride, Jazz Night in America presents content from across the n

Hosted by multiple Grammy Award-winning musician Christian McBride, Jazz Night in America presents content from across the nation. Listeners will hear storytelling around amazing concert performances including the artists, the venues, the fans, and other elements at play. Jazz Night in America is a rich presentation of the uniquely American art form that strives to reinvigorate jazz programming for audiences today.

From the Top

From the Top

Next Airs Tomorrow at 11 pm
1 hr

From the Top, with host Christopher O'Riley, showcases the nation's most outstanding young classical musicians. Each one-hou

From the Top, with host Christopher O'Riley, showcases the nation's most outstanding young classical musicians. Each one-hour program presents pre-collegiate musicians whose stunning individual performances are combined with lively interviews, unique pre-produced segments, lighthearted sketches and musical games.

1A

1A

Next Airs Monday at 10 am
2 hrs

1A aspires to be the most important daily conversation about cutting edge issues. The show takes a deep and unflinching look

1A aspires to be the most important daily conversation about cutting edge issues. The show takes a deep and unflinching look at America, bringing context and insight to stories unfolding across the country and the world. 1A explores policy, politics, and technology, while also delving into lighter subjects: pop culture, sports and humor.

Here and Now

Here and Now

Next Airs Monday at 12 pm
4 hrs

Here & Now combines the best in news journalism with intelligent, broad-ranging conversation to form a fast-paced program th

Here & Now combines the best in news journalism with intelligent, broad-ranging conversation to form a fast-paced program that updates the news from the morning and adds important conversations on public policy and foreign affairs, science and technology, and the arts: film, theater, music, food, and more.

Fresh Air

Fresh Air

Next Airs Monday at 4 pm
1 hr

"If you want to understand a political conflict, it helps to understand the culture in which that conflict is taking place,"

"If you want to understand a political conflict, it helps to understand the culture in which that conflict is taking place," says host Terry Gross. Fresh Air is one of the most popular programs on public radio, breaking the "talk show" mold, and Gross is known for her fearless and insightful interviews with prominent figures in American arts, politics, and popular culture. "When there is a crisis in a foreign country, we sometimes call up that country's leading novelist or filmmaker to get the cultural perspective." Fresh Air features daily reports and reviews from critics and commentators on music, books, movies, and other cultural phenomena that invade the national psyche.

Forum

Forum

Next Airs Monday at 5 pm
1 hr

A live public affairs program from San Francisco with host Mina Kim presenting balanced discussions of national, and world i

A live public affairs program from San Francisco with host Mina Kim presenting balanced discussions of national, and world issues as well as in-depth interviews with leading figures in politics, science, entertainment, and the arts.

Marketplace

Marketplace

Next Airs Monday at 6 pm
1 hr

Marketplace is a daily news magazine that filters the world through the lens of business and economics.

Marketplace is a daily news magazine that filters the world through the lens of business and economics.

On Point

On Point

Next Airs Monday at 7 pm
1 hr

Every weekday, host Meghna Chakrabarti leads provocative conversations that help make sense of the world. Each show is a dee

Every weekday, host Meghna Chakrabarti leads provocative conversations that help make sense of the world. Each show is a deeply researched, beautifully produced hour. Listeners will learn, be challenged — and have some fun, too. Produced by WBUR in Boston, distributed by American Public Media.

1A

1A

Next Airs Monday at 8 pm
1 hr

1A aspires to be the most important daily conversation about cutting edge issues. The show takes a deep and unflinching look

1A aspires to be the most important daily conversation about cutting edge issues. The show takes a deep and unflinching look at America, bringing context and insight to stories unfolding across the country and the world. 1A explores policy, politics, and technology, while also delving into lighter subjects: pop culture, sports and humor.

Planet Money – How I Built This

Planet Money – How I Built This

Next Airs Wednesday at 6 am
1 hr

Planet Money explains the economy with playful storytelling and Peabody award-winning deep dive journalism. Guy Raz hosts

Planet Money explains the economy with playful storytelling and Peabody award-winning deep dive journalism. Guy Raz hosts How I Built This, where innovators, entrepreneurs, and idealists take us through the often challenging journeys they took to build their now iconic companies. Featured guests include the founders of Lyft, Patagonia, Zappos, Spanx, Samuel Adams, Instagram, and more. The two programs pair back-to-back with a focus on the economy and business.

The Middle with Jeremy Hobson

The Middle with Jeremy Hobson

Next Airs Thursday at 9 pm
1 hr

The Middle with Jeremy Hobson

The Middle with Jeremy Hobson

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Rania Douris

Rania Douris

Raina Douris, an award-winning radio personality from Toronto, Ontario, comes to World Cafe from the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), where she was host and writer for the daily live, national morning program Mornings on CBC Music. She is also involved with Canada 's highest music honors: Since 2017, she has hosted the Polaris Music Prize Gala, for which she is also a jury member, and she has also been a jury member for the Juno Awards. Douris has also served as guest host and interviewer for various CBC Music and CBC Radio programs, and red carpet host and interviewer for the Juno Awards and Canadian Country Music Association Awards, as well as a panelist for such renowned CBC programs as Metro Morning, q and CBC News.

Guy Raz

Guy Raz

Guy Raz is the host, co-creator, and editorial director of three NPR programs, including two of its most popular ones: TED Radio Hour and How I Built This. Both shows are heard by more than 14 million people each month around the world. He is also the creator and co-host of NPR 's first-ever podcast for kids, Wow In The World. Previously, Raz was weekend host of NPR News ' signature afternoon newsmagazine All Things Considered. During his tenure, he transformed the sound and format of the program, introducing the now-signature "cover story" and creating the popular "Three-Minute Fiction"writing contest. Raz joined NPR in 1997 as an intern for All Things Considered and has worked virtually every job in the newsroom from temporary production assistant to breaking news anchor.

Shankar Vedantam

Shankar Vedantam

Shankar Vedantam is NPR 's social science correspondent and the host of Hidden Brain. The focus of his reporting is on human behavior and the social sciences, and how research in those fields can get listeners to think about the news in unusual and interesting ways. Before joining NPR in 2011, Vedantam spent 10 years as a reporter at The Washington Post. From 2007 to 2009, he was also a columnist, and wrote the Department of Human Behavior column for the Post. Vedantam writes an occasional column for Slate called "Hidden Brain."

Jess Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn is the host and producer of the radio show and podcast Bullseye (formerly The Sound of Young America). Thorn grew up in San Francisco, California, where he attended the University of California, Santa Cruz, and cofounded The Sound of Young America while working for the campus radio station. Thorn has interviewed many notable personalities. He also hosts multiple podcasts, the television program The Grid, and runs Put This On, a blog and web video series devoted to men 's fashion.

Terry Gross

Terry Gross

Thirty years after Terry Gross began posing challenging questions to actors, authors, musicians and politicians, the host and author still presses today's newsmakers to reveal themselves and their beliefs. Her understanding of the issues and no-nonsense style engrosses legions of devoted fans.

Brittany Luse

Brittany Luse is an award-winning journalist, on-air host, and cultural critic. She is currently the host of It's Been a Minute from NPR. Previously, Luse hosted For Colored Nerds, The Nod, and Sampler podcasts, and co-hosted and executive produced The Nod with Brittany and Eric, a daily streaming show. She's written for Vulture and Harper's Bazaar, among others, and edited for the podcasts Planet Money and Not Past It. Luse and her work have been profiled by publications like The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Teen Vogue.

Robin Hilton

Robin Hilton

Robin Hilton is NPR's Senior Producer of Music Podcasts, host of the show All Songs Considered, and composer. He has won over two dozen awards for his work, as both a reporter and a newscaster, from The AP, the National Association Of Broadcasters, Public Media Journalists Association, and more. He eventually landed at Morning Edition, where he worked as a Production Assistant before starting as the Assistant Producer for All Songs Considered in 2001.

Alexi Horowitz

Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi

Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi is a co-host and reporter for Planet Money, telling stories that creatively explore and explain the workings of the global economy. He's a sucker for a good supply chain mystery — from toilet paper to foster puppies to specialty pastas. He's drawn to tales of unintended consequences, like the time a well-intentioned chemistry professor unwittingly helped unleash a global market for synthetic drugs, or what happened when the U.S. Patent Office started granting patents on human genes. And he's always on the lookout for economic principles at work in unexpected places, like the tactics comedians use to protect their intellectual property (a.k.a. jokes).He's reported from Iceland on the dramatic crash of the country's budget airline, from Denmark on the global trade for human sperm, and from Germany on the country's (uncannily familiar) obsession with returning the things they buy online. He also produced Planet Money's 2020 Murrow-award-winning collaboration with the NPR Ed Desk, the show's audiobook rendition of the Great Gatsby, as well as collaborative episodes with Pro Publica, and Gimlet Media's How to Save A Planet. Horowitz-Ghazi hails from Santa Fe, New Mexico, studied history at Reed College, and got his start in radio at Oregon Public Broadcasting. He was selected as a 2014 AIR New Voices Scholar and a 2019 Arthur F. Burns Fellow. He previously worked with Michel Martin's team at All Things Considered, where he produced breaking news and feature stories, led film coverage, and directed the live broadcast. At All Things Considered, Horowitz-Ghazi reported on how a national clown scare affected professional clowns, who was behind of a wave of succulent poaching on the California coastline, what happens to a musician's legacy after they die, and why his hometown burns a giant human effigy every year. He also pitched and produced "Brave New Workers," a series of profiles on people adapting to the changing economy, and has interviewed coal miners, rock climbers, coyote hunters, porn stars, cowboys, truck drivers, drone pilots, Carrie Brownstein, Werner Herzog, and George R.R. Martin, among many others. In his free time, he enjoys riding bicycles, playing squash (middlingly), and sleeping out of doors.

Amanda Aroncyzk

Amanda Aroncyzk

Amanda Aronczyk (she/her) is a co-host and reporter for Planet Money, NPR's award-winning podcast that finds creative, entertaining ways to make sense of the big, complicated forces that move our economy. She joined the team in October 2019.Before that, she was a reporter at WNYC, New York Public Radio, where she contributed stories to Radiolab, On the Media, United States of Anxiety, The Brian Lehrer Show and more. Aronczyk covered science and health, and she fondly remembers collecting saliva from voters to measure stress, corresponding with the Unabomber and using nose swabs to solve a classic office mystery: who came to work sick? She was also the lead reporter on the award-winning 10-story companion series to PBS' "The Emperor of All Maladies," presented by NPR and WNYC.Aronczyk also teaches audio journalism at the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.

Anamaria Sayre

Anamaria Artemisa Sayre

Anamaria Artemisa Sayre is co-host of Alt.Latino, NPR's pioneering radio show and podcast celebrating Latin music and culture since 2010.As a multimedia producer for NPR Music, she is focused on elevating the diversity of sounds and stories that define Latinx culture. In addition to chismeando weekly on the mic with her co-host Felix Contreras, she spends her time curating Latin artists at the Tiny Desk. Sayre's producing credits include concerts from artists like Nicki Nicole, Camila Cabello, Camilo and Mon Laferte. In addition to her work at NPR Music, Sayre has appeared on many acclaimed NPR news shows and podcasts including Weekend Edition, Pop Culture Happy Hour, All Songs Considered and Code Switch.Originally from southern California, she's an avid lover of mountains, beaches and stories that pair best with a cafecito in her abuela's backyard.

BA Parker

B.A. Parker

B.A. Parker is the co-host of NPR’s Code Switch, reporting stories such as racial trauma in horror films, honoring her ancestors and the myth behind self-care. Prior to joining Code Switch, she was co-host and lead producer at The Cut podcast with New York Magazine. Previously, Parker was a film professor at Morgan State University and Stevenson University, where she forced 19-year-olds to watch Point Break and Wong Kar-wai films. She, then, found her way to a production fellowship with the radio show This American Life. Parker has also been a guest host of NPR's It's Been a Minute, and has produced for NPR's Invisibilia, Gimlet's Heavyweight and WNYC's Nancy.

Erika Beras

Erika Beras

Erika Beras (she/her) is a reporter and co-host for NPR's Planet Money.Prior to joining the team in 2021 she spent four years as a reporter at Marketplace.As a freelancer, she was a regular contributor to Scientific American podcasts and filed stories for NPR's Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Latino USA. She also contributed to PRI's The World, the BBC and Monocle 24 Radio and wrote stories for National Geographic and NewYorker.com.Before that, she spent a decade as a staff reporter for NPR Member station WESA and at The Miami Herald. Her reporting has taken her places as varied as The Democratic Republic of Congo, Switzerland and Erie, Pennsylvania.She has been awarded grants, fellowships and awards from Radio Television Digital News Association, National Association of Science Writers, The International Center for Journalists, the International Women's Media Foundation, The Center for Health Reporting, The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, Third Coast International Audio Festival and others.Beras is a returned Peace Corps Volunteer and a graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. A native Spanish speaker, she grew up in New York City and lives in Pittsburgh.

Felix Contreras

Felix Contreras

Felix Contreras is co-creator and co-host of Alt.Latino, NPR's pioneering radio show and podcast celebrating Latin music and culture since 2010.In addition to his post behind the mic, Contreras programs music from the Latin diaspora for the acclaimed Tiny Desk concerts and appears regularly on NPR's award-winning newsmagazines, All Things Considered and Morning Edition.A knowledgeable international ambassador for Latino heritage and arts, "Tio Felix" travels extensively in search of new talent and new music, and captures important legacy performers in jazz and Latin genres. Various national and international publications have quoted his expertise on the contemporary influences of Latin culture, music, and media.He's a recovering TV journalist whose first post at NPR in 2001 was as a Producer/Reporter for the NPR News Arts Desk. He is also NPR's resident Deadhead and performs around the DC area with his Latin music Beatles cover band, Los Day Trippers.

Gene Demby

Gene Demby

Gene Demby is a founding member of NPRs Code Switch team, where he serves as a host of the show. In 2020, Code Switch was named Apple's inaugural Podcast Of The Year. Demby's essays for Code Switch have also earned him honors for commentary from the Online News Association. Prior to joining NPR, he served as the managing editor of HuffPost's BlackVoices. He began his professional journalism career at the New York Times, where he served in various roles.Demby hails from Philadelphia and currently resides in Washington, D.C.

Jeff Guo

Jeff Guo

Jeff Guo (he/him) is a co-host and reporter for Planet Money, NPR's award-winning show that finds creative, entertaining ways to make sense of the complicated forces that move our economy. He joined the team in 2022.Previously, Guo covered economics and policy for The Washington Post, where his work frequently blended reporting and data analysis. Ask him about tontines or the curse of the potato or why Christmas is probably not an "orgy of wealth destruction." His one rule is to always get the name of the cat. And really, he doesn't mind if you listen to him at double speed. Guo also served as NPR's first Ishiyama Transparency in Government legal fellow. As a lawyer, he helped reporters draft Freedom of Information Act requests and sue the government over unanswered requests.Guo holds bachelor's degrees in math and economics from MIT, a J.D. from Yale Law School — and, occasionally, his two cats. He's from Maryland.

Jenn White

Jenn White

Jenn White is the host of 1A, a daily program from WAMU in Washington, D.C.A seasoned journalist and podcast host, she has worked in public radio since 1999. She came to 1A from WBEZ in Chicago, where she held several on-air positions, as host of the station's local two-hour midday show, Reset with Jenn White, and before that as host of The Morning Shift.She is also a familiar voice on several WBEZ podcasts, including Making Oprah, Making Obama and 16 Shots, which chronicled the fatal police shooting of Laquan McDonald and the trial of Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke. Before WBEZ, White was the local host of All Things Considered at Michigan Radio.White is also skilled as a public speaker and has moderated numerous on-air gubernatorial and mayoral debates. She is a native of Detroit and graduate of the University of Michigan.

Kenny Malone

Kenny Malone

Kenny Malone is a co-host for NPR's Planet Money. Before that, he was a reporter for WNYC's Only Human podcast. Before that, he was a reporter for Miami's WLRN. And before that, he was a reporter for his friend T.C.'s homemade newspaper, Neighborhood News.Malone's stories have investigated everything from abuse in Florida's assisted living facilities to health hackers building their own pancreas to the origins of seemingly made-up holidays like National Raisin Day. Or National Golf Day. Or National Splurge Day.His work has won the National Edward R. Murrow Award for Use of Sound, the National Headliner Award, the Scripps Howard Award, and the Bronze Third Coast Festival Award. He studied mathematics at Xavier University in Cincinnati and proudly hails from Meadville, PA, where the zipper was invented.

Lori Lizarraga

Lori Lizarraga

Award-winning journalist Lori Lizarraga is a co-host of NPR's Code Switch, the preeminent show about race and identity in America. Before joining NPR, she reported across the country in Texas, California, Colorado and internationally in Ecuador. She has a reputation for breaking news and a passion and energy for covering under-reported communities, civil rights and issues surrounding immigration and Latinos in the U.S.When she's not telling stories alongside her co-hosts Gene Demby and B.A. Parker or traveling to Texas to see her best friends — her abuela, her four siblings, or her 2-year-old nephew, Liam — she is most likely eating soup dumplings, cooking something spicy, making friends wherever she goes or dancing to her latest playlist.

Manoush Zomorodi

Manoush Zomorodi

Manoush Zomorodi is the host of NPR's TED Radio Hour. She is a journalist, podcaster and media entrepreneur, whose work reflects her passion for investigating how technology and business are transforming humanity. TED Radio Hour won the 2023 Ambie award for Best Knowledge, Science, and Tech podcast.Her book "Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Creative Self" (2017, St. Martin's Press) and her TED Talk (6+ million views) are guides to surviving information overload and the "Attention Economy."In 2018, Zomorodi founded Stable Genius Productions, where she produced and hosted, among other shows, ZigZag: TED's business podcast about being human. From 2013-2018, she hosted the interactive podcast Note to Self with WNYC Studios, which was named Best Tech Podcast of 2017 by the Academy of Podcasters. Prior to WNYC, Zomorodi reported and produced around the world for BBC News and Thomson Reuters.Manoush was named one of Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business for 2018 and has received various accolades for her work, including The Gracie for Best Radio Host in 2014 and 2018, and a Webby for Best Podcast Host in 2020.She received a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University in English and Fine Arts.Manoush is half-Persian and half-Swiss and was born in New York City, where she lives with her family.

Marielle Segarra

Marielle Segerra

Marielle Segarra is a reporter and the host of NPR's Life Kit, the award-winning podcast and radio show that shares trustworthy, nonjudgmental tips that help listeners navigate their lives.Segarra joined NPR from Marketplace, where she helped people understand how the ins and outs of the economy are relevant to their lives. Over the years, she reported stories on Amazon's counterfeit problem, the lack of paid family leave in the U.S., the origin story of the song of the summer, the role of makeup during a pandemic, and the jarring experience of returning to an office in August 2020.And as a host, she talked about U.S. refugee policy, green energy, the war in Ukraine, the movie "Encanto," cauliflower smoothies, hairless cats, inflation, mental health, honoring her ancestors, sea glass hunting in Puerto Rico and a lot more.Before Marketplace, Segarra worked at WHYY in Philadelphia. She has also taught audio journalism at Columbia University, and she coaches reporters and producers on how to write and deliver scripts that sound like them.Segarra is a graduate of Brown University, where she studied nonfiction writing and British literature and spent a semester talking about Shakespeare and drinking tea in Edinburgh.She has lived in New York for much of her life, but somehow still hasn't visited the Statue of Liberty.

Mary Childs

Mary Childs

Mary Childs (she/her) is a co-host for NPR's Planet Money and the author of the bestselling book, “The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All.” Before joining the team in 2019, she was a senior reporter at Barron's magazine, where she covered the alternatives industry, the bond market and capitalism. Before that, she worked at the Financial Times and Bloomberg News. She's written about the pioneering of new asset classes like time, billionaire's proposals to solve inequality and diversity and discrimination in the finance industry. Before all that, she was also a Watson Fellow, spending a year traveling the world painting portraits. She graduated from Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, with a degree in business journalism and an honors thesis comparing the use and significance of media sting operations in the U.S. and India.

Nick Fountain

Nick Fountain

Nick Fountain is a reporter and co-host of Planet Money, where he covers the cracks in our economy that explain how the world works.At Planet Money, he's driven the world's longest yard sale, bought and sold a truckload of Christmas trees, uncovered a global postal conspiracy, run the stairs of Fenway Park with hot dog vendors, figured out exactly why your printer is the worst and convinced the inventor of self-checkout machines to admit he hates his invention, among many other stories.Fountain started as a producer on the show in 2015. Before that, he worked as a producer and director of NPR's flagship show Morning Edition.He cut his teeth at KUSP, a community radio station in Santa Cruz, California, where he went to college. Then he worked at KQED in San Francisco, and WBUR in Boston. He lives in dreamy Ventura, California, with his wife, daughter, and dog.

Ramtin Arablouei

Ramtin Arablouei

Ramtin Arablouei is co-host and co-producer of NPR's Throughline, a show that explores history through creative, immersive storytelling designed to reintroduce history to new audiences.Arablouei got his start at NPR in 2015 with a three-week contract to produce a pilot for How I Built This with Guy Raz, and now produces, reports, mixes, and writes music for such top-rated podcasts as TED Radio Hour, Hidden Brain, Embedded, Invisibilia, The Indicator, Code Switch, Radio Ambulante, and the Center for Investigative Reporting's Reveal.A trained audio engineer, Arablouei spent most of his early twenties in recording studios. He contributed sound design and music for films and commercials, including the IMAX trailer for 300: Rise of an Empire. He's written music for many award-winning podcasts including "Los Cassettes del Exilio" (Radio Ambulante) and the "All Work. No Pay" episode of Reveal, which won the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi award for investigative reporting.Born in Iran, Arablouei emigrated to the U.S. with his family as a child. He graduated from St. Mary's College of Maryland with a Bachelor of Arts in psychology and history.

Rund Abdelfatah

Rund Abdelfatah

Rund Abdelfatah is the co-host and producer of Throughline, a show that explores the history of current events. In that role, she's responsible for all aspects of the production, including development of episode concepts, interviewing guests, and sound design.Abdelfatah joined NPR in 2014 as an intern and went on to become a producer on a number of NPR's most popular podcasts, including How I Built This, TED Radio Hour, NPR Politics Podcast, Code Switch, and Pop Culture Happy Hour.The concept for Throughline, launched in February 2019, was developed by Abdelfatah and her co-host, Ramtin Arablouei.Abdelfatah got her start in journalism covering local and domestic politics at the Washington bureau of the BBC. She previously earned a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology, with a minor in Spanish, from Princeton University.

Sarah Gonzalez

Sarah Gonzalez

Sarah Gonzalez is a host and reporter with Planet Money, NPR's award-winning show that finds creative, entertaining ways to make sense of the big, complicated forces that move our economy. She joined the team in April 2018.Before joining Planet Money, Sarah was a reporter with WNYC in New York City, where she dug deep into data and documents to uncover stories of inequality.Sarah's reporting uncovered that the Department of Homeland Security was apprehending undocumented teens on Long Island, based on flimsy claims that they were affiliated with the MS-13 gang. Dozens have since been released from detention after being held for months.For her five-part investigation into how New Jersey prosecutes minors, Sarah received the 2017 Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize, awarded to a public media reporter under age 35, and was a finalist for the 2017 Livingston Award for young journalists. Sarah found that teenagers were serving prison sentences that amount to life despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling prohibiting life sentences for minors. And she uncovered that 90 percent of minors tried as adults in the state were black or Latino. She was part of the WNYC reporting team awarded an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for the podcast, Caught: The Lives of Juvenile Justice.Sarah has served as a fill-in host for The Takeaway and WNYC's live two-hour call-in news show, The Brian Lehrer Show.Her investigation into Florida charter schools turning away students with severe disabilities received an Online News Association award for Innovative Investigative Journalism. She has received a national Edward R. Murrow award for Excellence in Innovation, and national awards from Public Radio News Directors Inc., the Society of Professional Journalists and the Education Writers Association for her investigative and feature reporting.Prior to WNYC, Sarah was an NPR Kroc Fellow in 2010 and was a state education reporter with NPR's StateImpact Florida from 2011-2013.She graduated from Mills College in Oakland, CA, and grew up on the San Diego-Tijuana, Mexico border.

Tonya Mosely

Tonya Mosely

Tonya Mosley is a co-host of Fresh Air. She's also the host of the award-winning podcast Truth Be Told, and a correspondent and former host of Here & Now, the midday radio show co-produced by NPR and WBUR.Prior to Here & Now, Mosley served as a host and the Silicon Valley bureau chief for KQED in San Francisco. Her other experiences include television correspondent for Al Jazeera America and a television reporter in several cities including Seattle, Wash., and Louisville, Ky.In 2015, Mosley was awarded a John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University, where she co-created a workshop for journalists on the impacts of implicit bias on reporting and co-wrote a Belgian/American experimental study on the effects of protest coverage. Mosley has won several national awards for her work, including an RTDNA award for her public radio series "Black In Seattle" and an Emmy Award in 2016 for her televised piece "Beyond Ferguson."

Jeremy Hobson

Jeremy Hobson

Jeremy Hobson is a trusted journalist to public radio listeners and stations, having spent ten years hosting Marketplace Morning Report, Here & Now, and NPR Special Coverage of major news events.He started in public radio at age 9, working on a show called Treehouse Radio on station WILL in his hometown of Urbana, Illinois. He interned for All Things Considered at 17, and spent years working as a producer and reporter, before becoming the youngest national host in public radio’s history in 2010. He’s so excited to bring more voices from the middle into the national conversation.

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