Lori Lizarraga is an Ecuadorian-Mexican-American journalist, award-winning local news reporter and host of NPR’s Code Switch, the nation’s premiere show about race & identity – Apple’s 2021 Podcast of the Year and named to Times’ 2025 list of 100 Best Podcasts of All Time.

After a decade in the industry, Lori has worked in newsrooms in Texas, California, Colorado, Chicago, Washington D.C. Arkansas, Pennsylvania, New York and on international assignment. It was her reporting of “LatinXed” in 2021 that forced new standards on immigration coverage banning the use of “illegal alien” in reporting of undocumented immigrants at more than 60 TV news and radio stations across the country.

You can find Lori’s most recent work on Code Switch wherever you listen to podcasts. Her role as host of the show from 2022 to 2025 saw the youngest and only Latina to ever hold the position at NPR. At 31, Lori is a Murrow and Emmy award-winning international journalist recognized by the ACLU and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists for her work holding power to account.