Anjuli Sastry Krbechek
Anjuli Sastry (she/her) and a 2021 . During in spring 2021, Sastry created, hosted and produced the audio and video series . The series tells the stories of immigrant communities of color through a personal and historical lens.
Since 2017, Sastry has been a producer on the NPR podcast and weekend radio show . In that role, Sastry cuts interviews, writes scripts, books guests, scores episodes, plans future coverage, leads editorial direction of episodes and more. She's produced episodes that look at , a deep dive into the and interviews with folks like and . She also produces live shows in places like and and directs weekly tapings of It's Been a Minute.
Sastry started her career at NPR on the flagship newsmagazine All Things Considered. In this role, Sastry led the show's social media team, was the lead producer for and reported in the Southwest and Mexico with Melissa Block and Elissa Nadworny for the special series .
She's worked as a producer for Marketplace and Press Play at KCRW, and her work has appeared in NPR's , , and ABC °µºÚ±¬ÁÏ.
Sastry has been awarded for her work on It's Been a Minute by the Los Angeles Press Club and National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. She is a co-founder of the Marginalized Genders and Intersex People of Color Mentorship Program at NPR. She and her co-founders received the NPR Diversity Success employee award for their work in 2018. She was also part of the inaugural and has spoken about mentorship at and the .
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"Books We Love" is NPR's list of our favorite 2021 reads. Here we present four suggestions from the romance genre.
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Author Luvvie Ajayi Jones and Tiffany Aliche talk about changing their given Nigerian names to more American ones in order to assimilate, and what their given versus chosen names mean to them today.
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New York Times food writer Priya Krishna and her mom, Ritu Krishna, co-authored the cookbook Indian-ish together in 2019. They discuss how food traditions change based on where you live.
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Author Luvvie Ajayi Jones talks to Tiffany Aliche about changing their given Nigerian names to more American ones in order to assimilate, and what their given versus chosen names mean to them today.
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Colette Baptiste-Mombo and her family moved to an all-white suburb at the height of the civil rights era. She shares how racist attacks changed her life, and how she deals with generational trauma. -
César Magaña Linares is a temporary protected status, or TPS, holder from El Salvador. As an activist and law student, he's redefining what it means to be an immigrant, beyond the headlines.
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Assimilation has a cost. As a third generation Chinese American, NPR Short Wave's Emily Kwong is rediscovering the language her father once knew, and what that means for where she comes from. -
Lopez talks with NPR's Sam Sanders about her decades of superstardom, her work imitating her life, and about being a boundary-breaking Latina woman in the entertainment industry. -
This weekend, Youth Cinema Project students screened their films for the public. The program aims to create a pipeline to get kids of color in underachieving schools into the filmmaking industry. -
The music mogul has spent decades shaping the careers of artists who would grow into superstars. A new Apple Music documentary aims to tell his story.
