Marielle Segarra
Marielle Segarra was WHYY's reporter. She reported for the multi-station partnership on urban policy, crumbling infrastructure and how distressed Pennsylvania cities are bouncing back. As a freelance radio reporter, her stories have also aired on Latino USA, WNYC, WBUR and other NPR member stations.
Before WHYY, Marielle was an editor at CFO, a corporate finance magazine in New York. She鈥檚 also a former intern for WBUR in Boston and WRNI in Providence.
Marielle studied nonfiction writing at Brown and graduated in 2010. She grew up in Levittown, New York, home of Billy Joel and the suburb. She prides herself on her ability to make conversation with anyone/anything (including goats).
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As many pools reopen on Memorial Day weekend, test your knowledge on kids' water safety. Drowning is the No. 1 cause of death for children ages 1 to 4 in the U.S. 鈥� and these tips may save a life. -
The former grocery store in the village of Carrollton, Ohio, looks like your typical creepy abandoned building. It鈥檚 dark inside. It鈥檚 boarded up with鈥� -
Picture the inside of a fast food restaurant. Big menu board, plastic booths, those brown trays, sticky with ketchup from the last customer - the kind of鈥� -
Philadelphia has tried and failed to lure developers to revamp its waterfront. So now it's sprucing it up on the cheap: a roller rink, string lights, hammocks and beer vendors. And it's working.
