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, we hear about the rise of tenant unions in our state from Connecticut Public's Camila Vallejo and the Connecticut Mirror's Ginny Monk. The Connecticut Tenants Union and one resident and organizer at Seramonte Estates in Hamden also join us. -
New London has been designated a "site of memory" by UNESCO, marking the arrival of the Speedwell schooner, and the city’s role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Hear from local historians about their research, showing the Speedwell represents a small part of the city’s links to slavery. -
For acclaimed author Tochi Onyebuchi, Connecticut is a microcosm of the country. This hour, he joins host Lucy Nalpathanchil to discuss his new science fiction novel set in New Haven, and its pressing real-world implications. -
Speaking Thursday on Connecticut Public Radio’s Where We Live, Lamont said that “we now have the ability to keep ourselves safe” and that on the first day of school this year, “everybody felt like we were back to normal.” -
In this hour, Governor Ned Lamont joins host Lucy Nalpathanchil in the studio to discuss his campaign for re-election and take listener questions. -
This hour on Where We Live, we hear from sickle cell disease experts at UConn Health and Yale on a successful transfusion therapy, and ongoing research that promises a full cure following a risk-reduced transplant. -
If elected Connecticut governor, Bob Stefanowski says people will 'live their lives as they see fit'For Republican Bob Stefanowski, it’s his second time running for governor against incumbent Democrat Ned Lamont. -
Bob Stefanowski, Republican candidate for Connecticut governor, joins host Lucy Nalpathanchil for the hour to discuss his campaign and answer questions from residents across the state. -
Steve Roberts has worked to make skateboarding more accessible in his hometown of New Haven. Plus, Dr. Neftalie Williams explores skateboarding as a tool of self-expression and community-building. Connecticut native and first-ever Olympian skateboarder Alexis Sablone previews Plush, the new skate shop she's launching in New Haven, along with fellow pro Trevor Thompson. -
Today, on Where We Live, we talk about life after student loan debt, and setting new financial goals. We’ll also talk with a financial planner that helps clients overcome student loan debt and plan for the future.
