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Lauren Migaki
Senior Producer at NPR
Lauren Migaki is a Senior Producer at NPR Ed, where she focuses on education-related stories, including topics like teacher strikes, college access, and initiatives such as a new high school for young men in Washington D.C. She also produces and hosts the NPR podcast related to the Student Podcast Challenge.
Her background includes significant contributions to NPR's Life Kit, where she led parenting coverage in 2019, and she was instrumental in developing Up First, NPR's first daily news podcast, in 2017. Prior to her current role, Migaki worked for seven years on Morning Edition, where she was involved in notable international reporting, including coverage in Crimea, Israel, and the Brazilian Amazon, earning an Edward R. Murrow award for the latter. She has also produced content for NPR's pop culture podcast, Pop Culture Happy Hour.
Migaki graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in Graphic Design.123
