Leah Donnella
Leah Donnella is an editor on NPR's Code Switch team, where she helps produce and edit for the Code Switch podcast, blog, and newsletter. She created the "Ask Code Switch" series, where members of the team respond to listener questions about how race, identity, and culture come up in everyday life.
Donnella originally came to NPR in September 2015 as an intern for Code Switch. Prior to that, she was a summer intern at WHYY's Public Media Commons, where she helped teach high school students the ins and outs of journalism and film-making. She spent a lot of time out in the hot Philly sun tracking down unsuspecting tourists for on-the-street interviews. She also worked at the University of Pennsylvania in the department of College Houses and Academic Resources.
Donnella graduated from Pomona College with a Bachelor of Arts in Africana Studies.
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A history professor who studies the politics of memory tells us what the United States can learn from how Germans remember their history. -
Dressed up as academic reasoning, racist tropes pushed by white identity advocates become more palatable, allowing those ideas to move from the fringes of debate to the political mainstream. -
The "DNA Discussion Project" brings students, staff and faculty at West Chester University together to learn about their genetic heritage. For some people, the revelations are hard to digest. -
Stuck in a racial quandary? We got your back. -
As we light a candle on the Code Switch podcast's birthday cake, our team looks back on the stories that mattered. -
The Pan-African flag, designed by Marcus Garvey in 1920, was intended as an expression of black liberation. It's still used around the world. -
We got more than 100 letters from our listeners about how y'all feel like fakes. Here are some of our favorites. -
In the meantime, some are producing their own shows or creating material for alternative platforms like YouTube. -
A photographer uses his lens to peer through perceptions of queerness in his ancestral home. -
Traffic fines in California have an outsize effect on low-income drivers and minorities.
