Isabella Gomez Sarmiento is a producer with the Culture Desk and NPR's Book of the Day podcast.
Since joining NPR in 2019, she's worked on stories about vaccine outreach in Latinx communities, the future of abortion access in a post-Roe landscape and the unionization effort of the Star Garden strippers in Los Angeles. She especially loves mixing music pieces — during her time coordinating Weekend Edition's music coverage, she booked and produced interviews with artists like Buscabulla, Pusha T and C. Tangana.
Before coming to NPR, she wrote about culture, gender and immigration for outlets including Teen Vogue, CNN, Remezcla and more. She likes riding her bike and talking to/about her cat, Ricky Ricardo.
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