Ashish Valentine
Ashish Valentine joined NPR as its second-ever Reflect America fellow and is now a production assistant at All Things Considered. As well as producing the daily show and sometimes reporting stories himself, his job is to help the network's coverage better represent the perspectives of marginalized communities.
Valentine was born in Mumbai, India, and immigrated to the United States as a child. Before working in public media, he spent two years in northern France teaching high school English. He joined NPR from Chicago member station WBEZ, where he produced two daily news shows and worked on an award-winning joint WBEZ-City Bureau series investigating racialized disparities in home mortgage lending in Chicago.
Valentine speaks fluent French and is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he studied English Literature.
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At Taiwan's premier music festival, artists went political with their tunes and lyrics.
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TSMC's plan to invest $100 billion into U.S. production facilities raises concerns that its leverage in securing protection from China may be weakened. -
Thousands of miles away from Ukraine, Taiwan is wondering whether it will be the next casualty of the changing moods in Washington, D.C. — and about what they can do to avoid a similar fate.
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Developments in the Ukraine-U.S. relationship have regularly made headline news in Taiwan lately. Many in Taiwan compare Ukraine's fate to its own, as China continues to threaten an invasion. -
A fierce debate in Taiwan over defense spending comes at a time when China continues to pressure the island and Washington's support is in question.
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Sri Lanka's parliament elected longtime politician Ranil Wickremesinghe as the country's new president in a secret ballot on Wednesday. Here's what led to this moment. -
Institutional racism, greed, and a broken global health system are all working against African nations where people are dying from COVID in silence, according to a scathing assessment from one expert. -
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Hanan Elatr, who was married to slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, about President Biden's meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman.
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NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Sri Lankan journalist Marlon Ariyasinghe about the country's protest movement.
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NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Ayoade Alakija, co-chair of the Africa Vaccine Delivery Alliance, about the ongoing challenges of addressing COVID-19.
