Mandalit del Barco

Keynote Speaker | NPR Arts Correspondent

As an arts correspondent based at NPR West, MANDALIT DEL BARCO reports and produces stories about film, television, music, visual arts, dance and other topics. Her news reports, feature stories, and photos, filed from Los Angeles and abroad, can be heard on All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Weekend Edition, Alt. Latino, and npr.org. del Barco’s reporting has taken her throughout the United States and further afield as well, including contributing to NPR’s coverage of the United Nations’ Women’s Conference. She also spent a year in her birthplace, Peru, working on a documentary and teaching radio journalism as a Fulbright Fellow and on a fellowship with the Knight International Center For Journalists. Before moving to Los Angeles, del Barco was a reporter for NPR Member station WNYC in New York City. She started her radio career on the production staff of NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday with Scott Simon. However her first taste for radio came as a teenager, when she and her brother won an award for an NPR children’s radio contest. Peruvian writer Julio Villanueva Chang profiled del Barco’s life and career for the book Se Habla Espanol: Voces Latinas en USA (Alfaguara Press). She mentors young journalists through NPR’s “Next Generation”, Global Girl, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and on her own, throughout the U.S. and Latin America.