Why did rachel martin leave npr
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Rachel Martin
Host, Morning Edition and Up FirstNPR
Biography
Rachel Martin is a host of Morning Edition, as well as NPR's morning news podcast Up First.
Before taking on this role in December 2016, Martin was the host of Weekend Edition Sunday for four years. Martin also served as National Security Correspondent for NPR, where she covered both defense and intelligence issues. She traveled regularly to Iraq and Afghanistan with the Secretary of Defense, reporting on the U.S. wars and the effectiveness of the Pentagon's counterinsurgency strategy. Martin also reported extensively on the changing demographic of the U.S. military – from the debate over whether to allow women to fight in combat units – to the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell. Her reporting on how the military is changing also took her to a U.S. Air Force base in New Mexico for a rare look at how the military trains drone pilots.
Martin was part of the team that launched NPR's experimental morning news show, The Bryant Park Project, based in New York — a two-hour daily multimedia program that she co-hosted wi
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About Me
If you draw a venn diagram with circles for languages, pedagogy, and technology, you may find me standing at the spot where they overlap, drinking a cup of coffee.
I used this slide to introduce myself when I presented at the NWMET conference in April 2023.
Yet, at the risk of muddying the water, I will introduce myself here as simply a teacher, traveler, and coffee drinker.
Teacher
Traveler
Coffee Drinker*
*I'm from Seattle.
It is always a little awkward to write about yourself, so I asked my good friend ChatGPT to prepare my introduction. First it kicked out a brilliant biography for NPR's Rachel Martin, which is a pretty common experience in my life. After clarifying a few details, ChatGPT described me as follows:
Rachel Martin is a multi-talented academic technology specialist and dedicated scholar, currently pursuing a PhD while holding two master's degrees. With a passion for languages, Rachel is fluent in both French and Spanish, allowing her to engage with diverse communities and bridge cultural gaps. Beyond her academic pursuits, Rachel I am an author, historian and educator with a Ph.D. in women’s and gender history from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. My publication credits include O Magazine, Oxford American, The Atlantic online, CityLab, Bitter Southerner and Narratively. I collected and curated the interviews for Making Eyes on the Prize: An Oral History, The Ford Foundation. I focus on the politics of memory, or how we remember and how we choose to forget the past. In “How Hot Chicken Really Happened,” I
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