Natalie Escobar
Natalie Escobar is an assistant editor on the Code Switchteam, where she edits the blog and newsletter, runs the social media accounts and leads audience engagement. Before coming to NPR in 2020, Escobar was an assistant editor and editorial fellow at The Atlantic, where she covered family life and education. She also was a ProPublica emerging reporter fellow, where she helped their Illinois bureau do experimental audience engagement through theater workshops.
Escobar graduated from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism with a degree in Magazine Journalism and Latino Studies.
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Myles Sanderson, the second suspect in the stabbing deaths of 10 people in the province of Saskatchewan, died after going into what police described as "medical distress." -
From light romance and short fiction to thrillers, here's a list of books that are perfect companions as you retreat to the beach or pool to catch a break from the summer heat. -
Here are all the movies that have won and were nominated at the 94th Academy Awards. -
After the pandemic shut down fashion's biggest night in 2020, the Met Gala came back on the 75th anniversary of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. -
In all, President Trump granted full pardons to 15 individuals and commuted part or all of the sentences of an additional five. -
Guns have always loomed large in Black people's lives 鈥� going all the way back to the days of colonial slavery, explains reporter Alain Stephens from The Trace. -
Geraldo Cadava, author of The Hispanic Republican, discusses the biggest misconceptions about Latino voters, who are projected to be the largest nonwhite voting demographic in 2020. -
Some want escapist reads to distract themselves during these times, while others are turning to books that lean into the darkness and dread of the pandemic. -
In her provocative book, writer Vicky Osterweil argues that looting is a tool to bring about change in society. -
Good Humor ice cream asked the Wu-Tang Clan's RZA to come up with a new jingle to replace "Turkey in the Straw," a ubiquitous ice-cream truck song with a racist past.
