Adrian Florido
Adrian Florido is a national correspondent for NPR covering race and identity in America.
He was previously a reporter for NPR's Code Switch team.
His beat takes him around the country to report on major flashpoints over race and racism, but also on the quieter nuances and complexities of how race is lived and experienced in the United States.
In 2018 he was based in San Juan, Puerto Rico, reporting on the aftermath of Hurricane Maria while on a yearlong special assignment for NPR's National Desk.
Before joining NPR in 2015, he was a reporter at NPR member station KPCC in Los Angeles, covering public health. Before that, he was the U.S.-Mexico border reporter at KPBS in San Diego. He began his career as a staff writer at the Voice of San Diego.
Adrian is a Southern California native. He was news editor of the Chicago Maroon, the student paper at the University of Chicago, where he studied history. He's also an organizer of the Fandango Fronterizo, an annual event during which musicians gather on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border and play together through the fence that separates the two countries.
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NPR's Adrian Florido reports on Robb Elementary, an overwhelmingly Mexican-American school in Uvalde, Texas where 19 children and two teachers were gunned down.
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What started as an art project at a California elementary school has gone viral. The free hotline offers wise advice and encouraging messages from kids to anyone who calls.
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Adrian Florido speaks to Miami-based musician riela about her new EP, Llorar y Perrear.
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An Indian medical student in Sumy says she and classmates had to use snow for drinking water while they await hopeful evacuation to flee the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Adrian Florido speaks with Chilean journalist Francisca Skoknic about Chile's new president, Gabriel Boric, who will take power on Friday.
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Adrian Florido speaks to University of Utah Health's Dr. Torri Metz about the dangers of being pregnant and unvaccinated for COVID-19
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Adrian Florido speaks with actor Franz Rogowski about the movie "Great Freedom," where a German man is imprisoned for being gay.
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Adrian Florido talks with Santa Barbara librarian Molly Wetta about what to read for a better understanding of Russia, Ukraine and the Soviet Bloc.
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Adrian Florido speaks with Congressman Jim Himes about Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky's video call with U.S. Congress members about the Russian invasion of his country.
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Puerto Rico entered bankruptcy in 2016 after it stopped making payments on more than $70 billion of loans. The deal was struck with the island's creditors, and opens the path to economic recovery.