Shereen Marisol Meraji

• Former Co-Host/Senior Producer
• Code Switch
• https://www.npr.org/people/177485735/shereen-marisol-meraji

Shereen Marisol Meraji is an audio producer and reporter who has told stories with sound for twenty years, most recently as the co-host of NPR’s critically acclaimed Code Switch podcast. As a founding member of the Code Switch team, Meraji has reported on issues of race, racism and racial identity formation since 2013. In 2020, Apple Podcasts named Code Switch its first-ever podcast of the year. Currently, Meraji’s a Nieman Fellow working alongside a cohort of 21 brilliant journalists spending an academic year at Harvard focusing on, “some of the most urgent issues facing the industry, ranging from racial justice to disinformation.” In July 2022 she’s headed to the University of California, Berkeley where she’ll be an assistant professor of race in journalism, training the next generation of audio journalists while continuing to publish her own work. When Meraji’s not telling stories that help us better understand the people we share the planet with, she’s dancing to salsa music, baking or kicking around a soccer ball.