Sequoia Carrillo is a reporter for NPR's Education Team. Along with covering big stories like the student debt crisis and segregation in K-12 schools, she reports on innovation in the education space — sometimes for Code Switch.
Since 2020, she's managed the Student Podcast Challenge, an initiative to get younger voices on the airwaves, and has traveled around the country to hear students' stories.
Prior to covering education at NPR, she started as an intern on the How I Built This team where she learned how to cut tape, wrangle guests and write out 100 questions before every interview.
Carrillo holds a bachelor's degree in history and media studies from the University of Virginia and a master's in journalism from Georgetown University.
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As educators in the nation's second-largest district prepare for the new limits on classroom screen time, some teachers say it... -
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It would slim regulation of the 60-year-old anti-poverty program and aim to save money. Advocates worry the changes could undermine... -
The Trump administration is proposing changes to Head Start rules, delivering on the administration's promise to deregulate the early education...
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Millions of students in universities and K-12 districts had their data compromised this week as a hack took down Canvas,...
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A first-of-its-kind national study looks at the impacts of cell phone bans in schools.
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Four states have recently passed legislation to limit teaching and assessments via screens for students. So has the United States'... -
In her first appearance on Capitol Hill this year, lawmakers questioned Education Secretary Linda McMahon about students' civil rights and...