Alana Casanova-Burgess is an audio journalist, producer, and reporter.
The host of both seasons of the bilingual podcast La Brega from WNYC Studios and Futuro Studios, hailed by The New Yorker, The New York Times and The Atlantic for its groundbreaking format. Previously, she was a reporter and producer for WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show and On the Media. She received an Exceptional Journalism Award from the Women’s Media Center for her work on La Brega, and was also part of a team that won the Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award for Blindspot: Tulsa Burning, a six-part podcast about the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. Her reporting has been featured in The Guardian, The New Yorker, 99% Invisible, Planet Money, Throughline, and Latino USA, among other radio shows and podcasts.
