Lulu Garcia-Navarro is a two-time Peabody Award-winning journalist with years of experience interviewing world leaders, authors, artists and people living on the front lines of a changing world. A longtime international correspondent in the Middle East and Latin America, Lulu was at NPR for 17 years, most recently as the host of “Weekend Edition,” where she reported on everything from #MeToo to immigration to the pandemic.
Lulu was also a co-host of the NPR podcast Up First and the first Latina at the helm of a flagship show at the broadcaster. Lulu came to the Times in December 2021 to host “First Person,” a New York Times Opinion show about how people come to their deeply held views. She now talks to famous and influential people for “The Interview” an audio and written franchise at the NYT Magazine. She is also an on-air contributor to CNN.
