Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro is the host of Weekend Edition Sunday and one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast Up First. She is infamous in the IT department of NPR for losing laptops to bullets, hurricanes, and bomb blasts.
Before joining the Sunday morning team, she served as an NPR correspondent based in Brazil, Israel, Mexico, and Iraq. She was one of the first reporters to enter Libya after the 2011 Arab Spring uprising began and spent months painting a deep and vivid portrait of a country at war. Often at great personal risk, Garcia-Navarro captured history in the making with stunning insight, courage, and humanity.
For her work covering the Arab Spring, Garcia-Navarro was awarded a 2011 George Foster Peabody Award, a Lowell Thomas Award from the Overseas Press Club, an Edward R. Murrow Award from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the Alliance for Women and the Media's Gracie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement. She contributed to NPR News reporting on Iraq, which was recognized with a 2005 Peabody Award and a 2007 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton. She has also won awards for her work on migration in Mexico and the Amazon in Brazil.
Since joining Weekend Edition Sunday, Garcia-Navarro and her team have also received a Gracie for their coverage of the #MeToo movement. She's hard at work making sure Weekend Edition brings in the voices of those who will surprise, delight, and move you, wherever they might be found.
Garcia-Navarro got her start in journalism as a freelancer with the BBC World Service and Voice of America. She later became a producer for Associated Press Television News before transitioning to AP Radio. While there, Garcia-Navarro covered post-Sept. 11 events in Afghanistan and developments in Jerusalem. She was posted for the AP to Iraq before the U.S.-led invasion, where she stayed covering the conflict.
Garcia-Navarro holds a Bachelor of Science degree in international relations from Georgetown University and an Master of Arts degree in journalism from City University in London.
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Rep. Don Beyer says his legislation would ban law enforcement from hiding their names and agencies when policing public protests.
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Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Chairman On Checkpoints: 'We're Doing It To Save Lives'NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Chairman Harold Frazier about checkpoints his tribal government has put up in South Dakota to try to mitigate coronavirus infections.
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The Latest Developments In The Case Of Ahmaud ArberyNPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to USA Today reporter Nicquel Terry Ellis in Atlanta about the arrest of two white men in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed black jogger in Brunswick, Ga.
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What It's Like To Have COVID-19 Symptoms For Nearly 2 MonthsNPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to COVID-19 patient Erica Jorn from Denver, Colo., about what it's been like to be sick with the virus for almost two months.
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George Packer's latest article, "We Are Living in a Failed State," breaks down the government's response to the coronavirus.
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Americans are beginning to receive their pandemic assistance checks of up to $1,200. We hear from listeners about what they are using the money for.
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Army captain Tom Moore is the oldest artist to top the BBC's singles chart, with a singalong cover of "You'll Never Walk Alone." He raised millions for the NHS by walking laps around his garden.
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Participants in our Outbreak Diaries Project talk about their concerns over employment and money during the pandemic.
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Community Honors Memory Of Harlem Veterinarian, Mentor Who Died During PandemicWe take a moment to remember Julie Butler, a veterinarian from Harlem, New York who died during the pandemic.
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Monica Raymond of Burlington, Vermont shares the song that's helping her get through this pandemic, "Pick Me Up, Dust Me Off" by Carleton Stone.