Isabella Gomez Sarmiento

Isabella Gomez Sarmiento is a production assistant with Weekend Edition.

She was a 2019 Kroc Fellow. During her fellowship, she reported for Goats and Soda, the National Desk and Weekend Edition. She also wrote for NPR Music and contributed to the Alt.Latino podcast.

Gomez Sarmiento joined NPR after graduating from Georgia State University with a B.A. in journalism, where her studies focused on the intersections of media and gender. Throughout her time at school, she wrote for outlets including Teen Vogue, CNN, Remezcla, She Shreds Magazine and more.

At a 'Gente Funny' show, only bilingual audience members are in on the joke

Isabella Gomez Sarmiento

Latinx comedians with non-English routines have largely been relegated to restaurants, bars and other spaces where Spanish already dominates. But a new generation is changing that, one show at a time.
From NPR Music

Brazil's Queen of Rock, Rita Lee, has died

Isabella Gomez Sarmiento

Rita Lee, the Brazilian singer, musician and composer, has died at 75.
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Here are the winners of the 2023 Pulitzer Prizes

Neda Ulaby

The Associated Press won two awards for its Ukraine coverage, including the prestigious Public Service award. The prize for fiction went to two books: Demon Copperhead and Trust.
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Durand Jones pens a love letter to being Black, queer and from the rural South

Isabella Gomez Sarmiento

'Wait Til I Get Over,' an homage to Jones' hometown of Hillaryville, Louisiana, paints a deeply nuanced portrait of Jones and of the Southern customs that raised him.
From NPR Music

Mo Willems' bossy Pigeon makes his operatic debut

Isabella Gomez Sarmiento

Mo Willems' picture book Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! turns 20 this month. To mark the anniversary, Willems and Renee Fleming presented the pigeon's story in an opera at the Kennedy Center.
Mo Willems' bossy Pigeon makes his operatic debut

Isabella Gomez Sarmiento

Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! turns 20 this month. To mark the anniversary, Willems and Renee Fleming presented the pigeon's story in an opera at the Kennedy Center.
From NPR Music

Why regional Mexican's current explosion catapults the genre to new heights

Felix Contreras

This week a collaboration between Bad Bunny and Grupo Frontera, in addition to a historic chart placement for Mexican artist Peso Pluma, pushed regional Mexican music to international attention
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For Puerto Rico's Villano Antillano, femininity is a shield — and a superpower

Isabella Gomez Sarmiento

The rapper's first full-length record is a testament to the way she's been able to interact with her femininity through her creative process.
NPR News

Raquel Welch, actress and Hollywood sex symbol, dead at 82

Ciera Crawford

Welch is best known for her roles in Fantastic Voyage and One Million Years B.C. She is survived by her son and daughter.
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As Ryuichi Sakamoto returns with '12,' fellow artists recall his impact

Elizabeth Blair

The composer has been lauded for decades over his deeply affective music; director Alejandro González Iñárritu, composer Hildur Guðnadóttir and more join us to explain why.