Lucy Nalpathanchil
Vice President, Community EngagementLucy leads Connecticut Public's strategies to deeply connect and build collaborations with community-focused organizations across the state.
Before becoming a member of the company's senior leadership team, Lucy was the Executive Producer and Host of Connecticut Public's morning talk show and podcast, Where We Live, for nearly seven years. Under her leadership, WWL went beyond news headlines and interviews with policymakers to feature more conversations about Connecticut and the stories of its residents.
In 2021, Lucy and the Where We Live team received a first-place award among large stations from Public Media Journalists Association or PMJA for this interview with a Norwich woman. In 2020, Lucy received a national Gracies Award from the Alliance for Women in Media in 2020 for her conversation with a Connecticut mother and her trans-son.
Where We Live received two national awards in 2018 from Public Media Journalists Association, formerly known as Public Radio News Directors, Inc., or PRNDI. Lucy and the Where We Live team was awarded second place in the categories of "Call In Program" and "Interview."
Lucy has been a public radio journalist for more than 20 years covering everything from education to immigration, juvenile justice, and child welfare issues to veterans' affairs and the military. Her reporting has taken her to all sorts of places, including a ride aboard a Coast Guard boat in Florida and to Tambacounda, Senegal, to talk with women journalists and farmers.
She moved to Connecticut in 2006 to become WNPR's Assignment Editor.
She's also been local host for mid-day programming and for All Things Considered.
She’s contributed to National Public Radio and her stories have aired on several national NPR shows including Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, Weekend All Things Considered, Here and Now, and Latino USA.
During her time in Connecticut, Lucy has focused on immigration, including New Haven's ID card program, efforts for an in-state tuition law for undocumented students, and the Becoming American series: stories of immigrants and the citizenship process. In 2011, Lucy launched the Coming Home Project to tell the stories of returning Afghanistan and Iraq War veterans in transition. To learn more about the military, Lucy was chosen to take part in a week-long training for journalists hosted by the U.S Army at Fort Leavenworth, KS and Fort Leonard Woods, MO. Getting up at 3:30 am to participate in boot camp was most memorable!
She also was selected to join military reporters around the country for a conference hosted by the Medill National Security Journalism Initiative in Washington D.C.
Lucy has worked in several states as a public radio reporter after beginning her career at WDUQ (now WESA) in Pittsburgh. She's received awards from Pennsylvania's Golden Quill, the New York State Associated Press, the Mayor's Asian American Advisory Board in Jacksonville, Florida, the Connecticut Associated Press and the state's Society for Professional Journalists chapter.
Lucy enjoys traveling, hiking, and planning her next garden. She and her husband, Jason, live in Suffield with their two children and a small zoo.
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This hour, hear from Stonington Kelp Co. about the benefits of regenerative ocean farming. Plus, the Shipwright’s Daughter is one restaurant using its buying power to push for sustainable fishing and farming. -
This hour on Where We Live, we talk about how the beauty industry and its influencers are causing a rise in cosmetic surgeries. -
Hotaling said being an independent means he’s not beholden to the Republican or Democratic parties. -
The road to securing the Independent Party nomination for governor has been anything but straightforward for Rob Hotaling. This hour, host Lucy Nalpathanchil talks with Hotaling about how he differentiates himself from the two major party candidates. -
This hour on Where We Live, Connecticut Public and CT Mirror’s Lisa Hagen breaks down a Connecticut Public-hosted debate between Congressman Joe Courtney and Rep. Mike France. Also, we talk about inequities in cancer mortality. And, we hear about a new ICD-10 code for POTS, and what it means. -
During Digital Inclusion Week, we hear from FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, along with American Library Association Executive Director Tracie D. Hall. How do local libraries help bridge the digital divide? Local libraries also join us. -
This hour, we discuss troubling new findings on the national transplant system known as UNOS. -
We hear from the International Association of Fairs & Expositions about New England's role in the history of agricultural fairs, and how Connecticut keeps those traditions going. Plus, we preview three harvest festivals in our state. -
This hour, hear from the owner of three Coder Schools in Connecticut, and one computer science class involved in the state’s annual "Coding for Good" challenge. Plus, one expert weighs in on what it really means to consider a career in coding. -
This hour on Where We Live, we talk to Connecticut’s top public health official, Dr. Manisha Juthani, Commissioner at the state Department of Public Health.
