Author: Anya Steinberg

Catch up on what you missed with our Education newsletter, sent weekly. The 2026 College Podcast Challenge is now open. Submissions will close on Jan. 17, 2027 at 11:59 PM EST. You can submit here. Good luck! I was in my final stretch of college, during the height of the pandemic. I was holed up in my house in Colorado Springs, Colo., doing homework at the dining room table, when my phone rang. NPR education reporter Sequoia Carrillo was on the line, calling to tell me I had won the 2021 College Podcast Challenge. It sounds dramatic, but that phone call…