Ayesha Rascoe
Ayesha Rascoe is a White House correspondent for NPR. She is currently covering her third presidential administration. Rascoe's White House coverage has included a number of high profile foreign trips, including President Trump's 2019 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam, and President Obama's final NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland in 2016. As a part of the White House team, she's also a regular on the NPR Politics Podcast.
Prior to joining NPR, Rascoe covered the White House for Reuters, chronicling Obama's final year in office and the beginning days of the Trump administration. Rascoe began her reporting career at Reuters, covering energy and environmental policy news, such as the 2010 BP oil spill and the U.S. response to the Fukushima nuclear crisis in 2011. She also spent a year covering energy legal issues and court cases.
She graduated from Howard University in 2007 with a B.A. in journalism.
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Nick Frost on his newest horror comedy and what makes the slasher funny. -
Kids in the kitchen: chaos or bliss? NPR's Ayesha Rascoe and her children join Mark Bittman to try out some kid-friendly recipes from his new book "How To Cook Everything Kids." -
With North Carolina now a toss-up this presidential election, both parties are making appeals to Black men. An older farmer and a younger restaurant owner share what's driving their votes. -
Director and writer Mikko Mäkelä says he wasn’t interested in creating yet another sex worker drama focused on trauma. Instead, Sebastian is a knowing but conflicted young man learning about himself. -
Pres. Biden and former president Trump will debate Thursday. They have sharply different policy agendas.
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We hear from singer Agalisiga Mackey, whose song "Tsitsutsa Tsigesv" was a standout submission to this year's Tiny Desk Contest.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with comedian Roy Wood, Jr., about his new podcast, "Road to Rickwood," about the legendary ballfield in Birmingham, Ala., that hosted a major league ballgame this month.
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Enthusiasm among young voters has waned in Black communities across the U.S. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe discusses some of the reasons with Traci Blackmon, a minister and consultant.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Princeton University professor Kim Lane Scheppele about Hungary's authoritarian leader Viktor Orban, who is about to become EU president.
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A science reporter mistakes a stranger for her husband and decides to take a deep dive into her own brain. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speak with Sadie Dingfelder about her new book, "Do I Know You?"
