Laura Pellicer
Digital Reporter/ Co-Host, "CREEP" PodcastLaura Pellicer is a digital reporter with WUNC’s small but intrepid digital news team. She is also the co-host and co-creator of CREEP, an award-winning podcast about creatures invading our space and changing the world around us.
Before that, she was a producer with The State of Things, a show that explores North Carolina through conversation. Her coverage at WUNC of the controversial Silent Sam Confederate monument garnered a Gracie Award from the Alliance for Women in Media.
Laura was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, a city she considers arrestingly beautiful, if not a little dysfunctional. She worked as a researcher for CBC Montreal and contributed to their programming as an investigative journalist, social media reporter, and special projects planner.
Laura loves tracing innovations in science and technology, and pursuing stories about Indigenous communities and environmental justice. She is enamored with her home in North Carolina — notably the lush forests, and the waves where she moonlights as a mediocre surfer.
You can reach her via email at lpellicer@wunc.org.
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A once-promising process for returning looted Native American remains has slowed to a crawl. We ask what can be done to fix the problem. -
Three decades after Congress passed a federal law intended to return ancestral remains to Native tribes, UNC-CH’s Research Laboratories of Archeology still hold remains representing more than 600 individuals — the largest share of unrepatriated remains in the state. -
Friday's opinions come less than four months since a new Republican majority on the court took their seats. The court swept away decisions made in December when the Democrats held a 4-3 seat advantage. -
A sprawling archive of Roland L. Freeman's photographs will be housed at the UNC-Chapel Hill Wilson Special Collections Library's Southern Folklife Collection. -
Wake County wants to save its farmland. A new program makes conservation more viable for landowners.In the last nine years, Wake County lost nearly 20% of its farm and forest land. -
The games are the world's largest event for student-athletes. -
In 2022, North Carolinians sought out entertainment close to home, pondered career moves, worked on their relationships, and considered adding new skills — like Braille and Cherokee language — to their personal toolkits. -
The Moore County Sheriff's Office has applied for several warrants related to the attacks that cut power for most county residents. -
About 35,000 Duke Energy and Randolph Electric customers remain without power as of Tuesday evening. -
'Violence and sabotage will not be tolerated': Gov. Cooper addresses Moore County substation attacksCooper and officials delivered an update on the shooting at substations in Moore County. Approximately 32,000 Duke Energy customers remain without power Monday afternoon.
