Marielle Segarra
Keystone Crossroads ReporterMarielle Segarra was WHYY's Keystone Crossroads reporter. She reported for the multi-station partnership on urban policy, crumbling infrastructure and how distressed Pennsylvania cities are bouncing back. As a freelance radio reporter, her stories have also aired on Latino USA, WNYC, WBUR and other NPR member stations.
Before WHYY, Marielle was an editor at CFO, a corporate finance magazine in New York. She’s also a former intern for WBUR in Boston and WRNI in Providence.
Marielle studied nonfiction writing at Brown and graduated in 2010. She grew up in Levittown, New York, home of Billy Joel and the suburb. She prides herself on her ability to make conversation with anyone/anything (including goats).
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On Tuesday, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced the 24 recipients of its annual "genius" grants. Each year, the foundation gives… -
On the Elbe River in Hamburg, Germany, there's a riverfront district called HafenCity. It's made up of slender pieces of land that are divided by canals… -
Philadelphia has tried and failed to lure developers to revamp its waterfront. So now it's sprucing it up on the cheap: a roller rink, string lights, hammocks and beer vendors. And it's working. -
The German city of Bottrop is known for its coal mine, Prosper-Haniel, which employs 5,300 people and will shut down by 2018.Bottrop's unemployment rate… -
At Keystone Crossroads, we write a lot of practical stories on urban design, policy and politics. But today we're indulging our literary side.We've… -
For a long time, Philadelphia's Delaware Riverfront was...underwhelming.Each winter, the city operated a harbor-side ice skating rink. There were also… -
At the end of 2011, the city of Allentown had a problem. There was a gaping hole in its fire department.No, not a literal hole. Forty-three of its… -
This is the second story of our three-part series on the state's bridges.Twenty-three percent of Pennsylvania's bridges are structurally deficient, and… -
This is the first story of our three-part series on the state's bridges.If you drive in Pennsylvania, you've probably crossed a structurally deficient… -
Keystone Crossroads mapped out all of Pennsylvania's structurally deficient bridges. Check out the interactive map on Keystone Crossroads' website.
