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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NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Barry Bloom, a professor of public health at Harvard University and a specialist in infectious diseases, about how the U.S. is doing with COVID-19 testing.
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NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Kate Julian of The Atlantic about her new article exploring the causes of skyrocketing childhood anxiety.
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Over the years, six of the Galvins' 12 children were diagnosed with schizophrenia. Robert Kolker, who has a new book on the family, says "there is a lot of hope and inspiration in this story."
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Taking care of your grooming can be a critical piece of your psychological health. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to The Cut's beauty director, Kathleen Hou, about people's pandemic beauty regimens.
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Dr. Kimberly Brown, an emergency room physician serving communities in northern Mississippi, talks about her experiences during the coronavirus outbreak.
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Christopher Gonzales Lacorte of Atlanta shares his experience being presumptively positive for COVID 19 — presumptively, because the hospital ran out of tests.
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NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Giacomo Grasselli, who heads an intensive care unit at a Milan hospital.
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Dr. Stephen Anderson of MultiCare Auburn Medical Center in Auburn, Wash., talks about working in the emergency department during the coronavirus pandemic.
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The comic couldn't have known her memoir would come out in the midst of a global pandemic. But her aptly titled book includes observations that feel eerily pertinent to these unsettling days. -
In her new book, author and blogger Glennon Doyle details how she broke away from an unsatisfying marriage and found her truest self — and she encourages all women to honor their inner voices.
