Alana Casanova-Burgess

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Alana Casanova-Burgess is host and producer for La Brega: Stories of the Puerto Rican Experience. She was previously a reporter and producer for the Peabody award-winning national public radio show On the Media from WNYC Studios and for The Brian Lehrer Show. She has been producing audio journalism for the past decade, and her work has also been featured in The Guardian, 99% Invisible, Throughline, The New Yorker Radio Hour, Latino USA, and elsewhere. In 2021, she was part of a team that won the Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award for Blindspot: Tulsa Burning. In 2018, she was a Livingston Awards finalist for her reporting from the island after Hurricane Maria. She has roots in the Caribbean, Brooklyn, and at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.

Shows:

La Brega

Alana Casanova-Burgess appears in the following:

Arms of different skin tones reaching for a volleyball over the net.

Keeping Score: A Year Inside a Divided Brooklyn High School

Friday, September 09, 2022

By Alana Casanova-Burgess / Jessica Gould : Reporter, WNYC News / Jenny Lawton : Managing Editor, WNYC Studios / Emily Botein : Vice President for Original Programming, WNYC Studios

By some measures, New York City has the most segregated school system in the country. Four high schools in Brooklyn are focussing their hopes for change on an unlikely target: sports.

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Keeping Score: A Year Inside a Divided Brooklyn High School

Friday, September 09, 2022

By some measures, New York City has the most segregated school system in the country. Four high schools in Brooklyn are focussing their hopes for change on an unlikely target: sports.

"Menudo: Forever Young" Cements the Legacy of the Puerto Rican Boy Band

Friday, July 15, 2022

The new HBO Max documentary “Menudo: Forever Young,” traces the rise of the group while also delving into the darker history of how its young members were treated by their managers.

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People stroll down Juarez Avenue in central Mexico City, Sunday, May 31, 2020. Mexico's capital plans to reopen certain sectors of the economy and public life beginning Monday.

The Global Impact of Americans Abroad

Friday, July 15, 2022

Americans are moving abroad to places like Bali, Mexico and Vietnam in search of lower costs of living. But what is that doing to the costs of living for people already living there?

Another Death at Rikers Island

Friday, July 15, 2022

Last weekend, 31 year old Elijah Muhammad was found dead in his cell at Rikers Island jail in New York City. It's the 8th death at the facility this year.

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In this Aug. 11, 2019, file photo, a man uses a cell phone in New Orleans.

9-8-8 is America's New Mental Health Hotline

Thursday, July 14, 2022

The federally mandated hotline is set to go live on July 16, but is it ready? We hear about its potential, and the challenges facing it.

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The Great Salt Lake is Slowly Shrinking

Thursday, July 14, 2022

Poor water management and a growing population is drying up Utah's Great Salt Lake, which could have health impacts on the local area as toxic dust is kicked up from the dried lake bed.

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The John Jay Jaguars Girls Varsity Volleyball team

Keeping Score: Part 4

Thursday, June 30, 2022

After the Jaguars compete in the city championship, students and coaches ask: was it all worth it?

Instead of Roe: The Case that Could Have Defined Abortion Law

Friday, June 24, 2022

In 1970, Captain Susan Struck challenged an Air Force rule banning pregnant women, or women with children, from serving. Her story has important lessons for reproductive freedom today.

Head Coach Mike Salak guides the Jaguars during a game

Keeping Score: Part 3

Thursday, June 23, 2022

What does it mean to lead a team in an anti-racist way?

Mariah Morgan is a junior at Park Slope Collegiate and plays on the girls varsity volleyball team

Keeping Score: Part 2

Thursday, June 16, 2022

How did the schools in the John Jay building become divided in the first place?

The four schools in the building now have a common motto: “We Are One.” Like many students, this poster (showing Millennium’s mascot) questions how reality is matching up to those aspirations.

Keeping Score: Part 1

Thursday, June 09, 2022

Two sports programs – rivals under a single roof – are set to merge. Students ask what it will take for the building to live up to its new motto: “We Are One.”

Sports and Integration in Brooklyn

Thursday, June 09, 2022

How things went when the athletic programs in one large school building in Park Slope, Brooklyn merged, and issues of equity were brought to the surface.