Vanessa Romo
Vanessa Romo is a reporter for NPR's News Desk. She covers breaking news on a wide range of topics, weighing in daily on everything from immigration and the , to a , to an alleged . She has also covered the occasional .
Before her stint on the News Desk, Romo spent the early months of the Trump Administration on the Washington Desk covering stories about culture and politics 鈥� the voting habits of the post-millennial generation, the as a septuagenarian pop culture icon and as Trump protests.
In 2016, she was at the core of the team that launched and produced The New York Times' first political podcast, The Run-Up with Michael Barbaro. Prior to that, Romo was a Spencer Education Fellow at Columbia University's School of Journalism where she began working on a radio documentary about a pilot program in Los Angeles teaching black and Latino students to code switch.
Romo has also traveled extensively through the Member station world in California and Washington. As the education reporter at Southern California Public Radio, she covered the region's K-12 school districts and higher education institutions and won the Education Writers Association first place award as well as a Regional Edward R. Murrow for Hard News Reporting.
Before that, she covered business and labor for Member station KNKX, keeping an eye on global companies including Amazon, Boeing, Starbucks and Microsoft.
A Los Angeles native, she is a graduate of Loyola Marymount University, where she received a degree in history. She also earned a master's degree in Journalism from NYU. She loves all things camaron-based.
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Forecasters say some slight strengthening is possible during the next 12 to 24 hours followed by little change in strength through Thursday. Theta is not expected to make landfall in the U.S. -
Former service members and families of those killed on active duty will have "free access to the iconic and treasured lands they fought to protect." -
An alert warns hospitals and health care providers that there is "credible information of an increased and imminent cybercrime threat." -
Brett Hankison, who was terminated in June, has been charged with three counts of wanton endangerment. None of the three men faces state charges directly over Taylor's death.
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The side-by-side tracks of two ancient animals have been called "by far the oldest vertebrate tracks in Grand Canyon." -
State Attorney General Xavier Becerra will challenge new restrictions aimed at limiting Deferred Action for Childhod Arrivals applications while the Trump administration aims to end the program. -
Trump says agents will go "into communities plagued by violent crime." He adds the administration has "no choice but to get involved." -
Protesters outraged over police brutality and systemic racism have spilled into the streets across the country, from Minneapolis to New York and in smaller cities such as Omaha, Neb. -
Americans continued to express their grief and outrage in demonstrations across the country, with violence emerging in some cities.
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Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis officer who planted a knee on the black man's neck, has been detained by state officials. For days, a video of the arrest has elicited fury across the country.
