Mandalit del Barco is a general assignment correspondent based at NPR West, who has reported and produced radio stories about everything from street gangs to Hollywood, police and prisons, marijuana, immigration, race relations, natural disasters, Latino arts and urban street culture. Her news reports, feature stories and photos filed from Los Angeles and abroad can be heard on All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Weekend Edition, alt.latino and npr.org. She served on the staffs of The Miami Herald and The Village Voice, has written for Latina magazine and reported for the nationally syndicated radio show Latino USA. She chronicled street gangs exported from the U.S. to El Salvador and Honduras, and went to Mexico to report about immigrant smugglers, musicians, filmmakers and artists. She spent a year in Peru working on a documentary and teaching radio journalism as a Fulbright Fellow and on a fellowship with the Knight International Center For Journalists. In addition to reporting daily stories, del Barco has created half-hour radio documentaries about gangs in Central America, Latino hip hop, L.A. Homegirls, artist Frida Kahlo, New York's Palladium ballroom and Puerto Rican "Casitas.” She mentors young journalists through NPR's "Next Generation", Global Girl, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and on her own throughout the U.S. and Latin America
