Ashish Valentine
Ashish Valentine joined NPR as its second-ever Reflect America fellow and is now a production assistant at All Things Considered. As well as producing the daily show and sometimes reporting stories himself, his job is to help the network's coverage better represent the perspectives of marginalized communities.
Valentine was born in Mumbai, India, and immigrated to the United States as a child. Before working in public media, he spent two years in northern France teaching high school English. He joined NPR from Chicago member station WBEZ, where he produced two daily news shows and worked on an award-winning joint WBEZ-City Bureau series investigating racialized disparities in home mortgage lending in Chicago.
Valentine speaks fluent French and is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he studied English Literature.
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NPR's Rob Schmitz talks with a former nanny from Shanghai about what life has been like since returning to the city during pandemic restrictions.
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Dr. J. Randall Pearce was a popular small town dentist who also served in disaster mortuary response after the 9/11 attacks. He lost his life to COVID-19 in December of 2020.
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Money from fossil fuels is directly financing Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a leading climate scientist says. -
NPR's Kelsey Snell speaks with Atlantic, writer Derek Thompson, about how low births, high deaths and heavy restrictions on immigration could steer the U.S. into a "demographic danger zone."
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NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Hawon Jung, a Korean journalist, about fears that the president elect will reverse years of progress on women's rights in South Korea.
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NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Aanu Adeoye of think tank Chatham House about African nations' responses to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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Yulia Zhivtsova has been taking to the streets to oppose Russia's invasion of Ukraine. She wants future generations to know: "You see? I was out there. I was protesting. I was against this." -
NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with Angela Stent, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, about what could be guiding Putin's decision-making in Ukraine.
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A new artificial intelligence program has beaten the world's best players in the popular PlayStation racing game Gran Turismo Sport. But the impact could be felt far beyond that. -
Scientists pitted an artificial intelligence driver against real human gamers in the PlayStation driving game Gran Turismo. The AI driver beat them all.
