Leslie Ovalle
Leslie Ovalle produces the morning newscasts that air during Morning Edition. As a multimedia producer, she also works on visual and digital storytelling. Her interests include immigration, technology and the environment.
Before joining the team, she was a production assistant for NPR’s “All Things Considered” program, where she worked on the weekly “All Tech Considered” segments and produced daily stories.
Leslie also led the “Argentina Project” podcast at the Wilson Center, a non-partisan policy think tank in Washington D.C.
Her journalism career began when she was in college working at Florida International University’s student paper. From there she went on to freelance at the Miami Herald and intern at the South Florida Sun Sentinel and WLRN.
She was awarded a Sunshine State Award for Best News Photo in the student category for her work covering the aftermath of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas school shooting in 2018.
Leslie was raised in Miami and was born in Bogota, Colombia.
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Democratic candidate Joe Biden is in Miami this week. How is South Florida’s hospitality industry making a comeback? And when are school sports coming back?
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The coronavirus pandemic has exposed a new kind of essential worker — those who are stocking the shelves and bagging our groceries. -
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