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Andie Corban

"Marketplace" Producer

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Andie is a producer of Marketplace's flagship daily program. She produces field stories, economic explainers and interviews with government officials, small-business owners, CEOs and others. Andie joined Marketplace in 2019 and is based in Los Angeles.

Before Marketplace, Andie led the news department at Rhode Island radio station WBRU. She also worked at Boston's NPR station, WBUR, and her investigative reporting has been published in The Providence Journal newspaper. She has a degree in public policy from Brown University.

In her free time, Andie enjoys baking new recipes (or just making her favorite chocolate chip cookies) and going to movie screenings across Los Angeles. She was born and raised in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Episodes by Andie (1)

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How Feeding America provides 4 billion meals a year

Dec 18, 2019
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Race and Economy

How a Baltimore detective teaches about implicit bias

by Kai Ryssdal and Andie Corban
Jul 7, 2020
"I do feel optimistic," says Edward Gillespie, an instructor at the city's police academy. "But it's not going to be an easy fight."
Protesters in Baltimore demand better police accountability and racial equality following the death of Freddie Gray in April 2015.
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COVID-19

Summer looks different for musicians this year

by Andie Corban
Jul 2, 2020
More than three months into the pandemic, we check in with Chicago musician Seth Shulman.
Musicians have had to find new venues since the pandemic started, and the growth of the labor movement has affected the music industry, said Puja Patel, editor in chief of Pitchfork.
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Race and Economy

The pipeline problem for Black women in economics

by Andie Corban and Kai Ryssdal
Jul 1, 2020
Kai Ryssdal talks with Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman, CEO of the Sadie Collective.
Graduates of Spelman College in Georgia, a historically Black women's college, attend commencement ceremonies in 2002.
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Race and Economy

How does race fit into intro econ courses?

by Andie Corban and Kai Ryssdal
Jun 25, 2020
Gary Hoover of the University of Oklahoma said talking about race in Econ 101 would help increase diversity in the field.
"What we expect in economics is that everyone will be ... rational," says economist Gary Hoover. Above, students at a university in Germany.
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Kai Explains

What's behind the national debt?

by Andie Corban and Kai Ryssdal
Jun 17, 2020
We look into how the government borrows money and what it means in the long run.
Then-Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen testifies before the House Financial Services Committee in 2016. The national debt has since passed $26 trillion.
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My Economy

Lists of Black-owned restaurants are circulating. Here's what that means for one baker.

by Andie Corban
Jun 16, 2020
Rita Magalde, owner of a Utah bakery specializing in baklava, says the increase in business feels like a miracle.
Rita Magalde with some of her sweet treats. Her business boomed during the holiday season.
Carlos Linares/Photo courtesy of Rita Magalde
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COVID-19

Why was the May unemployment number wrong?

by Andie Corban and Kai Ryssdal
Jun 8, 2020
Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal spoke with former BLS Commissioner Erica Groshen about the "misclassification" error.
Unemployment application forms outside a Florida library.
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Race and Economy

What the current protests have to do with economic inequality

by Andie Corban and Kai Ryssdal
Jun 2, 2020
Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal spoke with Dorothy Brown, Emory University, about the racial economic divide.
Protesters in front of the White House on Tuesday.
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COVID-19

Facing another month of costs in the coronavirus economy

by Andie Corban
Jun 2, 2020
We check in with two people whose employment has been disrupted by the pandemic.
Another month, another monthly credit card bill.
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Times may be tough for Iowa farmers, but planting was "gorgeous"

by Andie Corban and Kai Ryssdal
May 28, 2020
Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal checked in with Iowa corn and soybean farmer April Hemmes.
April Hemmes on her farm in 2019. This year, she had a record soybean harvest despite a drought earlier in the year.
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