Rosemary Misdary
Rosemary Misdary is a 2020-2021 Kroc Fellow.
Before coming to NPR, she freelanced and interned at WNYC, where she covered the George Floyd protests and New York's phased reopening after lockdown for the news desk and worked on the podcast The Stakes. She was a reporter for the New York Post covering crime, courts, prisons, breaking news and the height of the pandemic at the city desk. She interned at the New York Daily News metro desk covering breaking news. She has also worked as a photographer in Egypt and South Africa.
Before becoming a journalist, Misdary was a civil engineer for over 10 years. She got her start designing roads for the DOT, but spent most of her career designing and managing the construction of mass transit and trackwork for the MTA.
Misdary has a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and a master's degree in Journalism from the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism.
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A leaky fire hydrant in a hole in the sidewalk becomes a community gathering place when a few neighbors turn the eyesore into a goldfish pond.
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National Hurricane Center data for New York City shows development happening in at-risk areas, even as climate change brings more frequent and intense storms. -
National Hurricane Center data show that areas in New York City where public housing exists are at risk as climate change brings more frequent and intense storms.
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National Hurricane Center data for Miami, Washington, D.C., and New York City show development happening in at-risk areas, even as climate change brings more frequent and intense storms. -
New York City public school students are going back to school Monday, but parents and educators are bracing themselves as COVID-19 infections continue to rise among children.
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Jimmy Elidrissi left his native Morocco and came to America with the dream of being a film actor, instead becoming the star of the Waldorf-Astoria as the bellhop for 51 years. He died at 74.
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B-360, a nonprofit, uses dirt bikes to teach elementary and high school students math and science. "Just the excitement and the adrenaline. You can learn a lot from a bike," one participant says. -
B360 is a STEM program in Baltimore that uses dirt bikes to get kids interested in engineering while also recruiting riders as instructors and diverting them from the justice system.
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Nawal El Saadawi — unwilling to be married off at an early age and, in her words, "not really fit for the role of a wife" — coalesced an activist movement that inspired generations of Egyptians. -
In areas with limited access to clean running water, hand-washing stations can help limit the spread of disease. But experts say not all taps are created equal.
