Ayesha Rascoe
Ayesha Rascoe is a White House correspondent for NPR. She is currently covering her third presidential administration. Rascoe's White House coverage has included a number of high profile foreign trips, including President Trump's 2019 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam, and President Obama's final NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland in 2016. As a part of the White House team, she's also a regular on the NPR Politics Podcast.
Prior to joining NPR, Rascoe covered the White House for Reuters, chronicling Obama's final year in office and the beginning days of the Trump administration. Rascoe began her reporting career at Reuters, covering energy and environmental policy news, such as the 2010 BP oil spill and the U.S. response to the Fukushima nuclear crisis in 2011. She also spent a year covering energy legal issues and court cases.
She graduated from Howard University in 2007 with a B.A. in journalism.
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In Norway, Easter is celebrated by reading crime fiction. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe investigates this holiday tradition with author and former homicide detective Jorn Lier Horst.
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Iceland Air is hiring a photographer to come to their country and take pictures of beautiful landscapes. The main requirement for candidates is that their photography skills must be terrible.
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Practicing OB-GYN Mary Fariba Afsari bought an RV and started a mobile clinic in 2022. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Afsari about her book, "Labor: One Woman's Work."
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A skeptical podcast host confronts the supernatural in the new horror movie "Undertone". NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with the writer and director Ian Tuason about his filmmaking.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Christan Jacobs and Scott Schultz, the creators of Yo Gabba GabbaLand!, about the show's second season and the music that drives its fun.
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The Academy Awards are tonight and critics are predicting what will win Best Picture and who will win Best Actor and Actress. We hear about the nominees and our critic's picks.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Maggie Kang, the director of Kpop Demon Hunters, about the film's massive success and unexpected cultural impact.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Sean Jarrett, pastor of New Jerusalem Baptist Church in Tulsa, Okla., about receiving a grant from the Preserving Black Churches program.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Colleen Shogan, former Archivist of the U.S., about an initiative to "debrief America" in its 250th year with essays by prominent Americans, starting with George W. Bush.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to actress and comedy writer Paula Pell about her role in the new show, "The 'Burbs."