Laura Pellicer
Digital ReporterLaura 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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Beyond the hype about Pablo Escobar’s cocaine hippos, the real story of what’s happening in Colombia’s Rio Magdalena is surprising and complex. Some look on these hungry herbivores with affection and admiration, others fear their aggressive attitude and huge ecological footprint. Follow these unlikely invaders from Africa to Colombia with a possible layover in…Louisiana? -
If you had to guess the top five largest invasive species in the world, where would you start? And why, exactly, are we moving these behemoths around the globe?
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Tegus are armed with a metabolic superpower and a powerful appetite for eggs, but they’re also easily domesticated, making them both beloved family pets and unwelcome hungry pests. Throughout the South, these giant lizards are raising eyebrows, breaking hearts and launching lawsuits.
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has reached a settlement agreement with journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones that resolves legal matters arising from her application for a tenured position at the university.
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As the anniversary of Andrew Brown Jr.’s death in Elizabeth City nears, many who called for justice say that until now, they have seen little in the way of transparency or reform.
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Ariana DeBose has been moving up in the Broadway world by leaps and bounds. The North Carolina native got her start in showbiz with a role on the…
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In a briefing on Sunday afternoon, Gov. Roy Cooper and state emergency management officials provided an update on the impacts of sleet and snow blanketing parts of North Carolina.
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More than 150 drivers were absent late last week in Wake County, and Guilford County Schools had 76 drivers who were out Friday with COVID-19.
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WUNC reporters tackle the big questions for North Carolinians looking to protect themselves and their families.
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On April 21, 2021, deputies with the Pasquotank County Sheriff’s Office shot and killed 42-year old Andrew Brown Jr., an unarmed Black man. WUNC's Laura Pellicer interviewed Elizabeth City Mayor Bettie Parker about the community's push for changes in policing.
