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 on Where We Live, we look at how taxation policies shape e-cigarette usage among youth and young adults, and how a Yale study found higher cigarette use when taxes are levied on e-cigarettes. -
This hour on Where We Live, we check in on the local craft beer industry with the Connecticut Brewers Guild as well as the Brewers Association. Plus, Jamal Robinson launched a new scholarship opportunity aimed at diversifying the industry in our state. -
As the 2022 Election draws closer, gubernatorial candidate Bob Stefanowski has made big changes in his campaign team. This hour on Where We Live, we examine Republican campaigns here in Connecticut, and how conservative views have evolved since the Trump presidency. -
This hour, we hear from Connecticut farmers about the challenge of preparing for unpredictable extremes. Long Island Soundkeeper Bill Lucey discusses the effects he's observed on local fish and wildlife. State Agriculture Commissioner Bryan Hurlburt also joins. -
South Asians have the highest death rate from heart disease in the U.S. compared to other ethnic groups. The MASALA study wants to find out why, and how to prevent and treat it. -
Speaking on Connecticut Public Radio’s Where We Live, Charlene Russell-Tucker said that educators learned much during the pandemic and that she is “very confident about where we are.” -
Connecticut State Department of Education Commissioner Charlene Russell-Tucker joins Where We Live for the hour, touching on teacher shortages, COVID-19 and monkeypox guidance, and more. -
This hour on Where We Live, Dr. Nicholas Bellantoni tells us about the many shipwrecks along Connecticut’s shoreline and how they’re being preserved so that divers will always have an opportunity to explore their historical remains. -
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. -
Brother Carl Hardrick has worked since the 1960s to prevent violence in Hartford.
