Courtney Stein

Courtney Stein is a senior editor at Code Switch. She came to NPR from The New York Times, where she was a senior producer that helped create the weekly podcast First Person. Prior to that, she spent over a decade at the Peabody award-winning WNYC's Radio Rookies, teaching young people to report radio documentaries about issues important to them. While at WNYC, Stein also helped to pilot the podcast Nancy and was on the team that created the duPont-Columbia Award-winning podcast Caught: The Lives of Juvenile Justice, which began as a radio workshop she started in a juvenile detention center in Queens.

Before working in radio, Stein started a youth-run restaurant in Minneapolis and created storytelling workshops at GEMS.