Award-winning journalist Lulu Garcia-Navarro joins Alex Theodoridis, associate professor of political science and co-director of the UMass Poll.  They will discuss what Garcia-Navarro’s career at NPR and The New York Times's "The Interview" has taught her about conversations across political differences, public trust, democratic values, and why plural stories matter to a democratic society.

About the Speaker

Lulu Garcia-Navarro is a two-time Peabody Award-winning journalist with years of experience interviewing world leaders, authors, artists, and people living on the front lines of a changing world. She hosts the New York Times’s flagship franchise ‘The Interview’ where she has sat down with everyone from Vice President JD Vance to Miley Cyrus. A former longtime international correspondent in the Middle East and Latin America, Lulu was also at NPR for 17 years, most recently as the host of “Weekend Edition,”. She is also an on-air contributor to CNN.