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Sarah Menendez

Product specialist

SHORT BIO

Sarah Menendez is a former product specialist at Marketplace. Her job was to think about how audiences interact with our digital products. She created launch plans for new projects, optimized platforms for the user and collaborated across the organization to create internal tools that help us work smarter.

What advice do you wish someone had given you before you started this career?

It's OK if you don't want to be a reporter — there are a lot of different jobs behind the scenes that make the newsroom run.

In your next life, what would your career be?

Event planner. I love planning parties, and I spend way too much time watching wedding videos on YouTube.

Fill in the blank: Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you ______.

… out of student debt.

What’s your most memorable Marketplace moment?

When LeVar Burton came to the studio for an interview, I totally freaked out. I word-vomited something about “Reading Rainbow” and how much he means to my mom as a teacher. He was so kind and told me to make sure I thank my mom for her work.

Latest Stories (42)

The buzz behind TikTok's viral beekeeping and bee removal business

Sep 16, 2022
Erika Thompson owns Texas Bee Works, a beekeeping and bee removal company. Like other small businesses, inflation is adding new challenges.
"I had a [TikTok] video of me doing a bee removal that went viral," says beekeeper Erika Thompson. "And that was the first time my life sort of changed."
Aimee Aubin

Most millennials believe in gender equity, but avoid the "feminist" label

The latest GenForward survey examines how millennials view equal rights.
Sean Gallup/Getty Images

African-Americans, women and millennials have more economic anxiety than the rest of the country

Mar 7, 2018
Whether your economic anxiety has increased or decreased in the last year depends on who you are, according to the latest Marketplace-Edison Research Poll.
Pedestrians walk by a building advertising available retail space on Lexington Avenue on February 8, 2018 in New York. 
DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images

Quiz: Who said it? Powell versus Yellen

The two Fed chairs have very similar mindsets when it comes to monetary policy. Can you even tell the difference?
Alex Wong, Zach Gibson/ Getty Images

5 things you need to know about HQ Trivia

Jan 12, 2018
Yes, it's that thing people are talking about on Twitter.
HQ Trivia

2016 has been a wild year for fast food

Nov 16, 2016
Remember that time that national fast food chain released that crazy thing?
Flickr

The growing cost of Hurricane Matthew in Haiti

Oct 10, 2016
Haitians and foreign aid groups may have to pay for the hurricane's damage for years to come.
People walk past a street damaged by Hurricane Matthew, in Jeremie, in western Haiti, on October 7, 2016
HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images