Code Switch Creators & Guests

Shereen Marisol Meraji is reporter and producer. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of race in journalism at the University of California Berkeley.Previously, Meraji was co-host and senior producer of the NPR podcast "Code Switch."a co-host, reporter, and Senior Producer of NPR's Code Switch Podcast.

Lori Lizarraga is an Ecuadorian-Mexican-American journalist from Texas and a Murrow and Emmy-awarded international reporter.

B.A. Parker is a writer and audio producer. Currently, she is a co-host of the NPR show "Codeswitch."Previously, Parker was a producer at Vox Media, where she produced thier podcast "The Cut;" before that, she produced the WNYC podcast "Nancy;" and before that, she produced the podcast "Heavyweight" for Gimlet Media.Before becoming an audio producer, Parker was a film professor at Morgan State University and Stevenson University. She began her audio career with a production fellowship with the radio show "This American Life."Parker received her B.A. in Film and Television Writing from Morgan State University and her M.F.A. in FilmMaster from Columbia University.

Gene Demby is a journalist who specializes in race in America. He is currently the lead blogger for NPR's Code Switch team.Before coming to NPR, he was the managing editor for Huffington Post's BlackVoices. He later covered politics. Prior to that, he reported for the New York Times.While working for the Times in 2007, Demby started a blog about race, culture, politics, and media called PostBourgie, which won the 2009 Black Weblog Award for Best News/Politics Site.Demby attended Hofstra University.

Kumari Devarajan is a producer on NPR's Code Switch podcast.

Matt Thompson is the editor-in-chief of the Center for Investigative Reporting and editor for the Code Switch Podcast.

Leah Donnella is an editor on NPR's Code Switch Podcast.

Audio producer on The Big Take podcast from Bloomberg News. Past: The Guardian, NPR, BBC, and Heist with Michael Caine for Audible Originals.

Kai Cheng Thom is a Canadian writer and author of Falling Back in Love with Being Human.

Lonnie G. Bunch III is a historian who has spent most of his career as a history museum curator and administrator. Currently, he is the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.Previously, Bunch was the founding director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. His book about the endeavor, "A Fool's Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the age of Bush, Obama, and Trump," was published in 2019.

Reporter and occasional host for @NPR Short Wave (daily science podcast). Former @RavenRadio reporter in Alaska + @thejohnaproject fellow in Mongolia 🌿 she/her

Hari Kondabolu is a stand-up comic, actor, filmmaker and podcast host. He is best known for his comedy on subjects such as race, identity, inequality and the LGBT community.

Dr. Marjorie N. Feld is a professor of history at Babson College. Her teaching and research interests include U.S. social, labor, and gender history, along with the history of global human rights movements, food justice, and sustainability. She is a member of the Academic Advisory Councils of the Jewish Women's Archive and Jewish Voice for Peace.

Hank Azaria is an actor, voice actor, comedian, and producer.

Debbie Reese is a Nambé Pueblo scholar and educator. Reese founded American Indians in Children's Literature, which analyzes representations of Native and Indigenous peoples in children's literature. She co-edited a young adult adaptation of An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States with Jean Mendoza in 2019.

Akilah Johnson is a reporter. Currently, she is a health care reporter for ProPublica.Prior to working for ProPublica, Johnson covered the intersection of race, politics, youth, and immigration for The Boston Globe, where she shared a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. Before her time at the Globe, she covered education and public safety for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale.Johnson is a graduate of the University of Miami and alum of the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford University.

Gillian B. White Chief Revenue Officer at Capital B.Previously, White was a managing editor at The Atlantic, where she oversaw podcasts, editorial live events, special projects, and interactive storytelling. She has also worked as an editor and columnist at Kiplinger.White reveived her B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Northwestern University and her M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University.

Alicia Montgomery is a journalist, writer, and senior producer of the Code Switch Podcast.

Natalie Escobar is an assistant editor on the Code Switch Podcast.