Ashley Westerman
Ashley Westerman is a producer who occasionally directs the show. Since joining the staff in June 2015, she has produced a variety of stories including a coal mine closing near her hometown, the 2016 Republican National Convention, and the Rohingya refugee crisis in southern Bangladesh. She is also an occasional reporter for Morning Edition, and NPR.org, where she has contributed reports on both domestic and international news.
Ashley was a summer intern in 2011 with Morning Edition and pitched a story on her very first day. She went on to work as a reporter and host for member station 89.3 WRKF in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where she earned awards covering everything from healthcare to jambalaya.
Ashley is an East-West Center 2018 Jefferson Fellow and a two-time reporting fellow with the International Center for Journalists. Through ICFJ, she has covered labor issues in her home country of the Philippines for NPR and health care in Appalachia for Voice of America.
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The funeral for a doctor who was killed in a Russian missile strike on a children's hospital in Kyiv accentuates the wartime danger and losses for Ukraine's medical community.
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Ukrainians want the world to know that Russia will stop at nothing in its campaign to take over Ukraine — even if it means hurting children. Russia launched strikes on a children's hospital in Kyiv.
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A petition is circulating in Ukraine to erect a statue of late U.S. President Ronald Reagan in the capital Kyiv. This is the second time Parliamentarian Maryan Zablotshkyy has launched such a drive.
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NPR’s Michel Martin speaks with U.N. humanitarian adviser Máté Bagossy about his recent visit to the site of a deadly landslide in Papua New Guinea and the need for aid there.
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Asian adoptees make up the majority of international adoptees in the U.S. Despite this, their stories are often left out of the conversation during AAPI Heritage month. -
Tell NPR where you plan to watch the total solar eclipse on April 8. -
Officials say the Kaliwa Dam will help alleviate an impending water shortage in the capital that's being exacerbated by climate change. But the project is plagued with controversies and questions. -
The president visited the city of Live Oak in northern Florida, about an hour northeast of where Hurricane Idalia made landfall earlier this week. -
Police are still working to identify the vehicle and driver in the Sunday afternoon incident. -
Singaporean national Saridewi Djamani, 45, was convicted in 2018 of trafficking over 30 grams of heroin. She is first woman to be hanged since 2004.
