Leslie Ovalle
Leslie Ovalle produces the morning newscasts that air during Morning Edition. As a multimedia producer, she also works on visual and digital storytelling. Her interests include immigration, technology and the environment.
Before joining the team, she was a production assistant for NPR’s “All Things Considered” program, where she worked on the weekly “All Tech Considered” segments and produced daily stories.
Leslie also led the “Argentina Project” podcast at the Wilson Center, a non-partisan policy think tank in Washington D.C.
Her journalism career began when she was in college working at Florida International University’s student paper. From there she went on to freelance at the Miami Herald and intern at the South Florida Sun Sentinel and WLRN.
She was awarded a Sunshine State Award for Best News Photo in the student category for her work covering the aftermath of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas school shooting in 2018.
Leslie was raised in Miami and was born in Bogota, Colombia.
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Demand for the under-5 vaccines remains low, and some doctors say a bulk is going to waste. Dr. Brandon Chatani, a pediatric infectious disease specialist, joins WLRN's Sundial to discuss what parents should know. -
U.S. nursing schools turned away more than 80,000 qualified applicants because of an insufficient number of faculty to teach them. A new partnership aims to help. -
Sundial spoke with Dr. Aileen Marty, an infectious disease expert and member of the Miami-Dade coronavirus task force, about living through the pandemic today. -
On Sundial, a panel of enrollment administrators from colleges and universities across South Florida discuss the state of higher education. -
There's pressure from COVID, politicians, and parents. What’s it like being a teacher today? A panel of teachers from around South Florida talk about life in the classroom. -
As the number of people getting their COVID-19 vaccine has slowed down, a "Sundial" panel discusses where the hesitancy is coming from and a new campaign to get people vaccinated. -
A new course at Florida International explores the history of psychedelics and a new frontier for how these substances might have a positive effect on mental illness. -
"Sundial" spoke with South Florida Sun Sentinel reporters Cindy Goodman and Mario Ariza, who worked on the investigation critical of the governor's response to the pandemic. -
The pandemic has forced us to keep a distance from each other. This lack of human touch could be having a negative impact on our health. -
Over the past two decades, scientists have suggested that deforestation increases the chances that viruses and other pathogens will jump from wild...
