Lauren Hodges
Lauren Hodges is a producer for All Things Considered. She joined the show in 2018 after seven years in the NPR newsroom as a producer and editor.
Lauren works on many beats but leans toward national security, extremism, reproductive rights, poverty and social justice issues. She recently co-hosted a podcast on NPR's Embedded following active-duty Marines who were part of the mob that attacked the Capitol on January 6th.
She has been part of several award-winning teams at NPR. Her work on the ground covering the insurrection helped All Things Considered win the National Press Award for Breaking News in 2022. She has hosted the "Consider This" video series for several years, which won a White House News Photographers Association for Digital Storytelling. And she's a 2023 Edward R. Murrow Award winner for Continuing Coverage for her work on the aftermath of the fall of Roe. v. Wade.
She lives in Washington, D.C. and enjoys cemetery picnics, the quiet car on Amtrak rides, dive bars with no overhead lighting and eavesdropping on personal conversations.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to Anita Lee, reporter for the Sun Herald, about the growing national attention in the case Nolan Wells, a teenager found dead off of Mississippi's gulf coast.
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NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Ophir Falk, foreign policy adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, about his country's stance on war with Iran and Hezbollah.
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As several global tensions simmer, the Pentagon is removing thousands of transgender troops under an anti-DEI push. How might a focus on gender identity distract from mission readiness? -
A once anonymous R. Kelly survivor, Reshona Landfair is now ready to reclaim her voice. -
During President Trump's first term, transgender troops were told they needed to be diagnosed with gender dysphoria to keep their jobs. Now, the military is using that to put them on administrative leave. -
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Sahil Lavingia, who worked for the Department of Government Efficiency as a software engineer assigned to the Department of Veterans Affairs, about his experience. -
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Kevin Roberts — president of the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank behind Project 2025 — about the Trump administration's recent actions. -
NPR reporters revisit Afghans who fled their home country after Taliban's takeover in the summer of 2021. -
A Marine and his buddies joined the mob that entered the Capitol on Jan. 6. They were not the only Marines there. NPR asked the Corps' top officer a question: Do the Marines have an extremism problem? -
Republican Sen. Tuberville of Alabama has been blocking nearly all military nominations this year in protest of a Pentagon abortion policy. His fellow senators are getting creative with solutions.
