Bethel's an associate producer at Radiolab. Previously, she produced podcasts for Reuters and co-produced the For Colored Nerds podcast. She picked up her early radio chops at the Transom Story Workshop after getting her graduate degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Before grad school she worked for a non-profit management company, a D.C. restaurant with really great Indian food and a volunteer organization in Baños, Ecuador. Back in undergrad, she was a reporter and later the news editor of The Cavalier Daily, the University of Virginia’s independent student newspaper. She spent the rest of her time studying political philosophy, working retail and salsa dancing. These days she’s into wandering around New York City, practicing yoga and running the occasional 10k. She is child of immigrants who taught her to try her best, keep her promises and never eat injera with her left hand.
Bethel Habte appears in the following:
G: Relative Genius
Friday, February 02, 2024
When Albert Einstein died, someone stole his brain — and kicked off a scavenger hunt for the origin of genius.
Border Trilogy Part 1: Hole in the Fence
Friday, October 13, 2023
An anthropologist finds something macabre in the desert. High schoolers challenge the Border Patrol. Part One of our Border Trilogy.
New Project Confronts Slaveholder Origins of NYC Street Names
Wednesday, November 25, 2020
"If this is a history that we look back on and it makes us uncomfortable, now is an excellent time to change things."
Radiolab: What If?
Saturday, October 31, 2020
We're all wondering how the 2020 election will pan out. Our colleagues at Radiolab went looking for answers.
What If?
Friday, October 23, 2020
If a president happened to break a few political norms and decide, in the face of defeat, to fight instead of concede, what would actually happen? Today we choose our own adventure.
Fungus Amungus
Friday, September 04, 2020
There’s a new bug popping up around the world. Or it might just be an old bug that finally met its moment.
Dispatches from 1918
Friday, July 17, 2020
Thinking about our future, we look back on the aftermath of a century-old pandemic.
Dispatch 2: Every Day is Ignaz Semmelweis Day
Wednesday, April 01, 2020
The forgotten origins of a lifesaving ritual we’re all acting out 20 times a day, every single day.
Episode 5: Cuba-ish
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
What happened to Abdul Latif at Guantanamo Bay? Latif visits the “legal equivalent of outer space,” and manages to see his namesake … maybe.
The Other Latif: Episode 5
Friday, March 06, 2020
What happened to Abdul Latif at Guantanamo Bay? Latif visits the “legal equivalent of outer space,” and manages to see his namesake … maybe.
Blood and Beauty
Tuesday, October 08, 2019
Today we explore a different way of looking at evolution and what it may mean for the course of science.
Right to be Forgotten
Friday, August 23, 2019
Today we find ourselves in a room in Cleveland, Ohio, where a group of journalists are challenging the way we think about newspapers—and ourselves.
G: Relative Genius
Wednesday, June 05, 2019
When Albert Einstein died, someone stole his brain — and kicked off a scavenger hunt for genius that won’t seem to let us go.
The Beauty Puzzle
Friday, February 08, 2019
In one corner of the natural world, beauty may be beating brawn.
In the No Part 3
Thursday, October 25, 2018
From hookups to apps to whips, we go looking for the key to a conversation that should be happening, but isn't.
Breaking Bad News Bears
Friday, September 28, 2018
We decided to shake things up at the show...bear with us.
Post No Evil
Friday, August 17, 2018
Breastfeeding, beheadings and bombings, Facebook has rules to handle them all. Today, we explore those rules and ask what they tell us about the future of free speech.
Border Trilogy Part 2: Hold the Line
Friday, April 06, 2018
Part Two of our Border Trilogy, in which one Border Patrol agent changes the entire agency’s enforcement strategy, and one anthropologist tries to measure its deadly consequences.
Border Trilogy Part 1: Hole in the Fence
Friday, March 23, 2018
Part One of our Border Trilogy, in which we chronicle an unlikely legal showdown between high schoolers in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the country and the US Border Patrol.
Bigger Little Questions
Friday, December 22, 2017
Today, we're back with part two of our questions episodes. This time, we're chasing down answers to some bigger, little questions.
