Stories from NPR Creators & Guests

Mary Louise Kelly is a broadcaster, author, and co-host of All Things Considered Podcast on National Public Radio (NPR).

Lulu Garcia-Navarro is the host of National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Sunday. Previously, she was a foreign correspondent, serving as NPR's Jerusalem bureau chief from April 2009 to the end of 2012.

Scott Simon is an American journalist, and the host of Weekend Edition Saturday on NPR.

Jessica Huseman is a reporter whose work focuses on voting and elections administration. Currently, she is the elections reporter at ProPublica.Previously, Huseman was an education reporter at Slate, where she contributed to "The Teacher Project." Huseman is a former teacher herself.Huseman has also been a contributing writer for The Hechinger Report. Her freelance work has appeared in ProPublica, The Atlantic, and the Dallas Morning News.

Michael Hobbes is an American journalist and a former reporter for HuffPost. He is also the co-host of the podcast Maintenance Phase with Aubrey Gordon and the former co-host of You're Wrong About

Meghan O'Rourke is a nonfiction writer, editor, poet, podcaster, and critic. Currently, she is a writer and editor at The Yale Review.Previously, O'Rourke was a Culture and Literary Editor at Slate Magazine. She has also been an editor at The New Yorker.O'Rourke received her B.A. in English and Literature from Yale University and her M.F.A. in Poetry from Warren Wilson College.

Peter Robison is a journalist and author of Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing.

Erin Fuse Brown is a Professor of Law and director of the Center for Law, Health, and Society at Georgia State University and a member of the Journal’s Perspective Advisory Board.

Sheila Coronel is a Journalism Professor and investigative journalist.

Diane C. Swonk is an economist. Currently, she is Chief Economist at Grant Thornton LLP.Swonk's first book, "The Passionate Economist: Finding the Power and Humanity Behind the Numbers," was published in 2003.

Jon Burlingame is one of the nation's leading writers on the subject of music for film and television.

Percival Everett is a writer and Professor of English at the University of Southern California.Everett is the author of more than thirty novels and story collections. His first book, "American Desert," was published in 2004.Everett received his B.A. from the University of Miami and his M.A. in Fiction from Brown University.

Franco Ordoñez is a political reporter, currently servicing as the White House Correspondent for NPR's Washington Desk.Previously, Ordoñez covered the White House for McClatchy. He has also written about diplomatic affairs, foreign policy and immigration, and has been a correspondent in Cuba, Colombia, Mexico and Haiti.Ordoñez has received the Casey Medal, the Gerald Loeb Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism. He has been a reporting fellow with the International Center for Journalists.Ordoñez received his undergraduate degree from The University of Georgia, and his M.Sc. in Journalism from Columbia University.

Ali Latifi is a journalist.Latifi has reported from Washington, Greece, Turkey, Qatar, and Afghanistan. He has covered Afghan refugees in Greece and Turkey, and the Taliban in Doha.Latifi's work has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, AJE, DW, VICE, Think Progress, The New Arab, and DAWN News. He has also appeared on CNN, the BBC, the CBC, Democracy Now, and DW.

Julia Whelan is an American actress and author.

Hiroshi Motomura is the Susan Westerberg Prager Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law and a leading scholar in American immigration and citizenship law. His work explores the legal and policy dimensions of immigration, including issues of integration, rights, and the historical development of U.S. immigration law. He has authored influential books such as Americans in Waiting and Immigration Outside the Law, shaping academic and public discourse on immigration policy. A recipient of multiple awards for his scholarship and teaching, Motomura is also actively engaged in legal advocacy and policy discussions on immigration reform.

Matthieu Aikins is a journalist and literary non-fiction writer.

Lawrence Gostin is a law professor who specializes in public health law, best known as the author of the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act and as a significant contributor to journals on medicine and law. He is also Professor of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University and Director of the Center for Law & the Public's Health at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities.Gostin received his B.A. in Psychology from the State University of New York at Brockport and his J.D. from Duke Law School.

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