npr interns

From NPR Headquarters in Washington, we are the interns.

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Exit Through The (NPR) Gift Shop: Rachel Cohn

Name: Rachel Cohn

Position: Planet Money Intern!

Hometown & College: I'm from Miami, FL! And I most recently got my master's degree from the University of Oxford and my undergrad from Occidental College

Favorite N.Y.C. Spot:  The big reading room in the Bryant Park public library just across the street from the NY Bureau.

Favorite NPR show, blog or podcast: Planet Money/ Invisibilia/ Throughline

Coolest thing you’ve done while at NPR: Co-reported an episode!

Someone at NPR who inspires you: Nick Fountain one of the best producers on my team (and not just because he's looking over my shoulder as I write this)

Dream Tiny Desk: Maggie Rogers! (bring her back!)

Advice for future interns: Don't be afraid to experiment-- even if it means moving slightly outside of standard NPR format. Think about how you want stories to sound and feel, and push to get the content you and your team work on to be more like that.

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Exit Through The (NPR) Gift Shop: Natalie Brennan

Name: Natalie Brennan

Position: All Things Considered intern

Hometown & College: I grew up in New Jersey and then went to the University of Michigan (go bluuuuu).

Favorite D.C. Spot: Bantam King for ramen!

Favorite NPR show, blog or podcast: All Things Considered has my heart but I am so inspired by the content coming out of Throughline!

Coolest thing you’ve done while at NPR: Got to interview two of my favorite poets, Hanif Abdurraqib and Franny Choi for a poetry series I pitched!

Someone at NPR who inspires you: Emily Abshire is a queen! She graduated early from college a semester early to take a job at NPR and that is the type of dedication and drive I am trying for in 2019!

Dream Tiny Desk: The Strokes are my favorite band but I feel like Julian doesn't know the words to Is This It anymore........ so I'll go with Frankie Cosmos.

Advice for future interns: Pitch, pitch, pitch! Come up with new ideas and show that you can execute them.

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Exit Through The (NPR) Gift Shop: Koko Nakajima

Name: Koko Nakajima

Position: News Apps Intern (aka design/dev on Visuals)

Hometown & College: Cresskill, NJ & Brown University

Favorite D.C. Spot: Hana Market

Favorite NPR show, blog or podcast: NPR's Book Concierge

Coolest thing you’ve done while at NPR: Worked on parts of the dailygraphics rig. It's open source (!!) and powers the charts and maps and tables on NPR's site. Also, Nao's Tiny Desk Concert.

Someone at NPR who inspires you: The News Apps team 💕 They're superstars!

Dream Tiny Desk: Carly Rae Jepsen

Advice for future interns: Support each other, drink lots of water.

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Exit Through The (NPR) Gift Shop: Jess Yarmosky

Name: Jess Yarmosky

Position: Education Desk Intern

Hometown & College: Richmond, MA // College of Wooster (OH)//Harvard Graduate School of Education

Favorite D.C. Spot: St. Arnold's in Cleveland Park for the world's best French fries or Politics & Prose bookstore

Favorite NPR show, blog or podcast: Invisibilia, Throughline, UpFirst

Coolest thing you’ve done while at NPR: Any time spent producing in the field is time well spent...and working with my dream fellow intern Tiara to report and write a Code Switch episode about racism in classic books--look for it soon!

Someone at NPR who inspires you: Clare Lombardo, a former intern who sat next to me at the ed desk and answered my thousands to millions of daily questions, and is a superstar reporter in her own right

Dream Tiny Desk: Dr. Dog

Advice for future interns: Have fun & learn as much as you can!

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Exit Through The (NPR) Gift Shop: Janhvi Bhojwani

Name: Janhvi Bhojwani

Position: Business Desk Intern

Hometown: Guam, U.S.A. and Jakarta, Indonesia

College: Georgetown University School of Foreign Service & Georgetown University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Favorite D.C. Spot: Vapiano on M Street (I just really love the concept of it)

Favorite NPR show, blog or podcast: Believed

Coolest thing you’ve done while at NPR: I went to a greeting card convention and learned a lot about the greeting cards industry. It’s pretty fascinating! And then I got to write about it.

Someone at NPR who has changed your life: Everyone on the Business Desk has been so nice, but if I had to pick, it’s Daniella Cheslow for taking me under her wing and teaching me so much these past few months!

Dream Tiny Desk: Goldroom

Advice for future interns: It’s important to list out your goals and work through them as you progress through the semester, but also it’s important to enjoy your internship. Don’t forget to have fun!

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Exit Through The (NPR) Gift Shop: Casey Noenickx

Name: Casey Noenickx

Position: Engagement Intern

Hometown & College: Bethesda, Maryland & University of Maryland

Favorite D.C. Spot: The tidal basin in the spring or the sculpture garden in the summer

Favorite NPR show, blog or podcast: Morning Edition and Up First!

Coolest thing you’ve done while at NPR: Run the main Facebook and Twitter, break news online like this. 

Someone at NPR who inspires you: So many people but probably the young folk like Danny Nett, Brandon Carter, Laura Roman — they were all also the engagement intern at one time and I love seeing how far that’s taken them.

Dream Tiny Desk: The Weeknd LOL

Advice for future interns: Build close relationships with your supervisors, your teammates and other seasoned nippers. They will be able to open so many doors for you and could be in your life forever. 

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Exit Through The (NPR) Gift Shop: Fengxue Zhang

Name: Fengxue Zhang

Position: Music Editorial Intern

Hometown & College: University of Kansas in Lawrence, KS

Favorite D.C. Spot: Pavilion Cafe in the Sculpture Garden

Favorite NPR show, blog or podcast: Invisibilia and Code Switch

Coolest thing you’ve done while at NPR: Got coffee with Kat Chow!!!

Someone at NPR who inspires you: The interns. They are honestly some of the most brilliant, creative, hardworking and welcoming people I've ever met.

Dream Tiny Desk: Abhi The Nomad

Advice for future interns: Don't be too hard on yourself! Take slow walks, drink good coffee and invest in the people that feel like home.

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Exit Through The (NPR) Gift Shop: Lina Chang

Name: Lina Chang

Position: Audio Digitization Intern at RAD (Research, Archives and Data Strategy)

Hometown: Los Angeles / Seoul & Chelsea College of Arts

Favorite D.C. Spot: The US Botanic Garden, the rotisserie chicken aisle at Harris Teeter, and the Hirshhorn Museum (they have amazing artist talks and events and the exhibitions are the bomb.com!

Favorite NPR show, blog, or podcast: Options, a historical program from the 1970’s and Throughline

Coolest thing you’ve done while at NPR: It’s been amazing to learn all about audio preservation from the best team (shoutout to Susie @cususie, Will @wp_chase, and RAD @npr_rad)

Someone at NPR who inspires you: Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei, co-hosts of Throughline

Dream Tiny Desk: It’d be amazing to have Korean artists perform! Some of my favorites are - Offonoff, Dean, and Yaeji.

Advice for future interns: It’s completely normal to feel impostor syndrome. It gets better every day and meditation seriously helps! Since my first day, the RAD team and the intern group has been my support system.

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Exit Through The (NPR) Gift Shop: Maddie Mortell

Name: Maddie Mortell

Position: Social Media Communications Intern

Hometown & College: Marshfield, MA. Studied multimedia journalism at Emerson College in Boston.

Favorite D.C. Spot: The zoo, I was surprised it was free. It’s just a nice daytime stroll where you can see some Pandas. When the government reopened from the shut down, that was the first place I went.

Favorite NPR show, blog or podcast: Hidden Brain. Each episode leaves me challenging my beliefs and I constantly send my friends and family episodes to listen to. Throughline is also really great at recontextualizing history and leaving me to wonder why things are the way that they are.

Coolest thing you’ve done while at NPR: It’s hard to choose. I managed Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn for NPRExtra for 4 months so there were a lot of little highlights from that. I made these public media valentines that were dispersed everywhere; that was very light and fun.

Someone at NPR who inspires you: The 58 other interns who’ve hailed from all different parts of the country to pursue their dreams of working in public media. We made friends with each other fast, and I’m constantly impressed by their company.

Dream Tiny Desk: Lizzo

Advice for future interns: Believe in yourself. The longer you’re hung up on the “Do I belong here?” that everyone feels, the less time you have for cool ideas and projects. Imposter Syndrome even hits people who’ve worked here for decades. Every person in this building is here for a reason.

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Exit Through The (NPR) Gift Shop: Jenn Kerr

Name: Jenn Kerr

Position: Media Relations Intern

Hometown & College: Eldersburg, MD: University of Maryland

Favorite D.C. Spot: any and all La Colombe coffee shops

Favorite NPR show, blog or podcast: It's a tie between Invisibilia and Up First

Coolest thing you’ve done while at NPR: Listen in on Bob Boilen's interviews for the 2019 Tiny Desk Contest (he has some amazing stories)

Someone at NPR who inspires you: Can I say all of the Spring interns? Because all of the Spring interns amaze me with everything they've done here and how amazing they've been to get to know

Dream Tiny Desk: Lizzo or Gabrielle Aplin

Advice for future interns: Don't eat lunch at your desk! Go make friends with the other interns, get lunch and coffee with them and make some friends. Also, take chances. Pitch the story you aren't totally sure will get picked up or write a line that might get edited out. The worst thing anyone can say to you is no, and you won't get better without accepting feedback.

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Exit Through The (NPR) Gift Shop: Christine Ash

Name: Christine Ash

Position: Software Development IT Intern

Hometown & College: Forestville, MD 

Favorite D.C. Spot: Wonderland Ballroom

Favorite NPR show, blog or podcast: Code Switch

Coolest thing you've done while at NPR: Attended Nao Tiny Desk Concert

Someone at NPR who inspires you: Sharahn Thomas

Dream Tiny Desk: Tierra Whack

Advice for future interns: May the odds be ever in your favor

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Exit Through The (NPR) Gift Shop: Olivia Sun

Name: Olivia Sun

Position: Multimedia Science Desk

Hometown & College: Bettendorf, IA; University of Iowa

Favorite D.C. Spot: 9:30 Club/Calabash Tea

Favorite NPR show, blog or podcast: Invisibilia + Pop Culture Happy Hour

Coolest thing you’ve done while at NPR: covered a senior dance team, photographed some presidential candidates, and met some radical fellow interns

Someone at NPR who inspires you: the Goats & Soda team

Dream Tiny Desk: Hiatus Kaiyote

Advice for future interns:  be yourself, take assignments the extra mile, and get to know everyone you can!

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Exit Through The (NPR) Gift Shop: Evelyne Zapata

Name: Evelyne Zapata

Position: Data Strategy Intern at RAD (Research, Archives and Data Strategy)

Hometown & College: Miami, FL & Florida International University + San Jose State University

Favorite D.C Spot: Library of Congress

Favorite NPR show, blog, or podcast: Enfoque Nacional, Alt. Latino and Radio Ambulante

Coolest thing you’ve done while at NPR: Exploring the NPRchives and hugging Leikeli47 after her magical Tiny Desk performance!

Someone at NPR who inspires you: All the RAD researchers for diligently answering questions and my co-intern Lina for always making me laugh.

Dream Tiny Desk: Francis and the Lights

Advice for future interns: Remember you once dreamt of being where you are now.

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Exit Through The (NPR) Gift Shop: Nell Clark

Name: Nell Clark

Position: Weekend All Things Considered Intern

Hometown & College: St. Pete FL. & Florida State University

Favorite D.C. Spot: Pho Viet in Columbia Heights!

Favorite NPR show, blog or podcast: Goats and Soda, All Songs Considered, and of course, WATC.

Coolest thing you've done while at NPR: I got to organize breaking news coverage of the Barr letter and Mueller Report -- it came out two hours before our show aired, so we trashed everything we had planned and started new. Also: reading my first byline on NPR's website and seeing "NPR's Nell Clark produced this story for air" at the bottom. 🙂

Someone at NPR who inspires you: All of NPR's temps! They keep this building running and are always down to answer a question or grab some coffee.

Dream Tiny Desk: Brandi Carlile's voice would sound amazing in such a small space!

Advice for future interns: Pitch as often as you can, push through the impostor syndrome, and enjoy your time here because NPR is a really special place to work.

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Exit Through The (NPR) Gift Shop: Clara Maurer

Name: Clara Maurer

Position: Tiny Desk Contest Intern

College: Berklee College of Music

Favorite D.C. Spot: The 9:30 Club (or the National Gallery!)

Favorite NPR show, blog or podcast: Okay, besides Tiny Desk (of course), I really like Invisibilia!

Coolest thing you’ve done while at NPR: I just did an Instagram Live video with Tiny Desk audio engineer Josh Rogosin and got to ask him a bunch of questions about his process. It was a lot of work, but it was also a lot of fun!

Someone at NPR who inspires you: Oh, easy, my supervisor, Pilar Fitzgerald!!!

Dream Tiny Desk: Stevie Wonder (pls)

Advice for future interns: Listen and observe. Even as an intern, there's always a way to pitch in and go above & beyond.

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Exit Through The (NPR) Gift Shop: Kelly Myslinski

Name: Kelly Myslinski

Position: Corporate Communications Intern

Hometown & College: Ellicott City, MD & Towson University

Favorite D.C. Spot: Kramerbooks and Afterwords--I'm a sucker for a good bookstore/café combo

Favorite NPR podcast: Pop Culture Happy Hour

Coolest thing you’ve done while at NPR: Bake a cake for Public Radio Cake Week and watch ATC go live. Also, seeing "Kelly Myslinski/NPR" under photos I take never gets old.

Someone at NPR who inspires you: Stephen Thompson. His Tiny Desk listserv emails are easily the best thing in my inbox.

Dream Tiny Desk: I've had a one-person campaign to get The Head and the Heart to perform for a while now--it needs to happen.

Advice for future interns: Remember that you deserve to be here. Take this time to learn, grow and explore everything there is here. Get to know people in the building, they all have incredible stories to share.

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Exit Through The (NPR) Gift Shop: Jonathan Luo

Name: Jonathan Luo

Position: IT Service Desk Intern

Hometown & College: Vienna, Virginia. George Mason University

Favorite D.C. Spot: Georgetown Harbor/Waterfront

Favorite NPR show, blog or podcast: TED Radio

Coolest thing you’ve done while at NPR: I've literally talked to *almost* everyone in the building over the phones! 😬😬

Someone at NPR who inspires you: Nipper! 😅😂🙃

Dream Tiny Desk: Taylor Swift

Advice for future interns: Put yourself out there and explore the endless opportunities. Don't be afraid to ask people questions! Everyone is willing to help!!