Pien Huang
Pien Huang is a health reporter on the Science desk. She was NPR's first Reflect America Fellow, working with shows, desks and podcasts to bring more diverse voices to air and online.
She's a former producer for WBUR/NPR's On Point and was a 2018 Environmental Reporting Fellow with The GroundTruth Project at WCAI in Cape Cod, covering the human impact on climate change. As a freelance audio and digital reporter, Huang's stories on the environment, arts and culture have been featured on NPR, the BBC and PRI's The World.
Huang's experiences span categories and continents. She was executive producer of Data Made to Matter, a podcast from the MIT Sloan School of Management, and was also an adjunct instructor in podcasting and audio journalism at Northeastern University. She worked as a project manager for public artist Ralph Helmick to help plan and execute The Founder's Memorial in Abu Dhabi and with Stoltze Design to tell visual stories through graphic design. Huang has traveled with scientists looking for signs of environmental change in Cameroon's frogs, in Panama's plants and in the ocean water off the ice edge of Antarctica. She has a degree in environmental science and public policy from Harvard.
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Staff at the CDC are bracing for a significant reduction in the work force that appears to be targeting staff with the fewest worker protections. -
While some information has been restored, scientists are still alarmed over the removal of data. It's not clear what has changed, and some pages remain offline. -
NPR's Pien Huang speaks with X Games CEO Jeremy Bloom about the use of AI to judge snowboarding this year -- and whether the technology will expand to other sports.
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NPR's Pien Huang speaks with writer s.e. smith about their piece in The Verge that explores why so many websites disappear from the internet and what it tells us about online culture.
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NPR's Pien Huang speaks with journalist Grace Yeoh, who spent a month with a championship lion dancing team, about the rigors of the dance and what makes it so demanding.
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NPR's Pien Huang speaks with Timothy Welbeck, director of Temple University's Anti-Racism program, about DEI programs' roots in the civil rights movement.
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President Trump says he wants Egypt and Jordan to resettle Palestinians from Gaza as a shaky ceasefire holds between Israel and Hamas.
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NPR's Pien Huang speaks with author and playwright Betty Shamieh about her debut novel, Too Soon.
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Alexander Lukashenko expected to win election for 7th time in a row in Belarus, with little opposition.
