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Traci Tong

Traci Tong was part of the original team that created and launched The World in 1996. Currently, she is a producer and director of the daily live show. Her job is to find that perfect person to tell her story for the show's global audience. Over the years, Traci has worked from Honolulu to Dallas to Boston ... from London to Nairobi ... from Sierra Leone to the Philippines ... and throughout Oceania. She has sat for interviews with deposed dictators, future US presidents, the real Jane Roe and the grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.Traci also serves as the managing editor with NPR's multimedia professional development program, NextGenRadio, for a new generation of multimedia journalists.Although the truth is, she would rather be on the water with her standup paddleboard or paddling on a Dragonboat.
A poster with Theresa May is on a building upside down that reads "This way up"
The ‘glass cliff’ puts women in power during crisis — often without support
Author Anna Dahlqvist talking with Saudah, a teenager in Kampala, Uganda
Women & Gender
The ‘menstrual awakening’: Shattering the period stigma
Stephanie Labbe raises her hands while standing in goal.
Sports
‘I can’t control my gender’
a woman with dark hair on a beach
Women & Gender
For one woman with an eating disorder, Ramadan was a chance to blend in
Elizabeth Tyler as Cleopatra lounges on a red cushion, he straight dark hair decorated with gold beads.
Women & Gender
An online campaign is rewriting Egyptian beauty standards
Khalida Popal
Women & Gender
Khalida Popal defied the Taliban and risked her life to play soccer
Asia Argento arrives for the Women In The World Summit in New York City
Culture
Asia Argento on relearning how to live her life after sexual assault
Author Asne Seierstad
Books
The journey of two sisters into the Syrian jihad, and a father’s efforts to rescue them
Mecca pilgrimage
Culture
Muslim women are speaking out against abuse with #MosqueMeToo
Conflict
How the Vietnam War’s Napalm Girl found hope after tragedy
Kristi Yamaguchi
Culture
Kristi Yamaguchi inspires a record number of Asian American skaters
Abigail Anderson (L) and Bingjie Turner (R) lived at the Xining Children's Home before being adopted. Anderson went to live with a family in Virgina and Turner with a family in Washington state.
Culture
Adoptees return to their Chinese village to help friends who were left behind
Women in the US military want their voices added to the #MeToo movement. Women vets say sexual assault and harassment are rarely reported out of fear of retribution.
Conflict
Women veterans want their voices heard in the #MeToo movement
Iceland Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir meets people at a stand of her party set up at the Kringlan shopping mall in Reykjavik on Oct. 25, 2017.
Global Politics
Iceland’s most trusted politician is a feminist environmentalist who is the ‘anti-Trump’
Nigerian woman fears for her safety when she needs to use the bathroom
Conflict
A lack of clean and safe toilets leaves women vulnerable to rape and attacks
Jhonny Arcentales was captured in these open waters between Ecuador and Colombia.
Justice
The US Coast Guard is operating floating prisons in the Pacific Ocean, outside US legal protections
Athena - the personal safety device
Conflict
This piece of jewelry is actually an alarm
Mulaba Habanyama, 24, preparing her Gingerbread Tiramisu
Health
At pop-up eatery in Canada, HIV education is on the menu
Former South Korean "comfort woman" Lee Yong-soo speaks during an anti-Japan rally in front of Japanese embassy in Seoul, South Korea, December 30, 2015.
Conflict
South Korea makes a bold move with a former ‘comfort woman’ at its state dinner with the US and Japan
protest
Conflict
The dangers of reporting on femicide in Argentina
The cast of the new version of Disney's 'The Lion King'
Arts
‘The Lion King’ may be a Disney film. But to one man, it’s a South African experience.
Kenyan women wait to receive family planning and reproductive health services at the Family Health Options Kenya
Culture
Kenyan health providers call Trump’s global gag rule ‘a death sentence’ for women
Fish and seafood are on display in Vladivostok, Russia, Sept. 6, 2017.
Jobs
Some of the frozen seafood sold in US supermarkets has been linked to North Korea
Indonesian Siti Aisyah is on trial for the killing of Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korea's leader.
Conflict
Why this reporter thinks the two women accused of killing Kim Jong-un’s half-brother were unwilling participants
North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un guides the Korean People's Army Tank Crews' Competition 2017 in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang on April 1, 2017.
Global Politics
Trump to China: Get on board about North Korea or I go alone
Former lawmaker of the Russian State Duma Denis Voronenkov and his wife Maria Maksakova pose for a picture in Kiev, Ukraine February 27, 2017. Voronenkov was assassinated March 23, 2017 in Kiev.
Global Politics
Did Putin put out a contract on a Russian whistleblower and critic?
Immigration activists rally against the Trump administration's new ban against travelers from six Muslim-majority nations
Conflict
Will the travel ban and building a wall fix America’s immigration problems?
Man looking at woman
Conflict
One of the first men stopped by Trump’s immigration ban will attend president’s address
The Nokia 3310 makes a comeback. February 24, 2017.
Technology
Blast from the past: the return of a popular dumbphone
Norma McCorvey, the anonymous plaintiff known as Jane Roe in the Supreme Court's landmark 1973 Roe vs. Wade ruling
Justice
I knew the real Jane Roe
Joel Basman as Helmut Morbach and Louis Hofmann as Sebastian Schumann
Arts
Denmark’s dark past is up for an Oscar
Two men with vests that read "POLICE ICE" lead away a man in handcuffs
Justice
How this undocumented immigrant brought to the US as a child is getting ready for Trump’s immigration agenda
Zeshan Bagewadi
Music
An Indian American Muslim singer resurrects an old civil rights anthem
Demonstrators spell out "# No Muslim Ban" during a protest against President Donald Trump's executive order travel ban.
Justice
Why this Muslim American, who fled Iran in 1979, backs Trump’s travel ban
Iceberg lettuces are seen next to a sign requesting that customers limit their purchase in a supermarket, in London, Britain February 3, 2017.
Global Politics
Why the shortage of veggies in UK shops? Lettuce find out.
North Korea's embassy to the United Kingdom in west London where Thae Yong-Ho was deputy ambassador before his defection to South Korean in August 2016.
Global Politics
North Korea’s highest ranking defector has no regrets
A Hallaca is a typical Venezuelan dish made out of cornmeal and stuffed with beef, pork, chicken, raisins, capers and olives and then wrapped in a banana leaf and traditionally served on Christmas and New Year's Eve.
Culture
For this Venezuelan, Christmas isn’t Christmas without hallaca
Military personnel stop a vehicle for inspection.
Conflict
Remembering slain Canadian hostage John Ridsdel
Bashar and Putin
Global Politics
Did Vladimir Putin save the day for Syria? Or create a bigger challenge?
Partially demolished houses in the Vila Autodromo slum with the Rio 2016 Olympic Park in the background in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Environment
How will Brazil come through on its Olympic promises?
The Hartley family. (Left to right) Gwen holding Claire (age 14); Cal (age 17); Scott holding Lola (age 9); and their two whippets, Romeo and Cash.
Health
These children with microcephaly are a source of inspiration
A health worker fumigates the Altos del Cerro neighbourhood as part of preventive measures against the Zika virus and other mosquito-borne diseases in Soyapango, El Salvador.
Health
This country doesn’t want women to get pregnant until 2018
A Syrian girl waits with her family hoping to leave the town of Madaya where thousands have been dying of starvation. Trucks from international relief organizations entered Madaya January 11, 2016 carrying food and medical supplies.
Conflict
Aid worker shaken by severity of starvation at Syrian town of Madaya
Syrian playmates lay along the street after arriving with their family. Chancellor Angela Merkel was criticized and praised over her management of the refugee crisis. Germany is taking in more migrants than any other EU state.
Development
How one German town copes with its migrants
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry makes impromptu remarks to members of the media after meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Media
Reporting in the Middle East isn’t nearly as glamorous as this LA Times job posting makes it sound
A member of the Iraqi security forces gestures at a government complex in the city of Ramadi, December 28, 2015.
Conflict
Iraq scores a victory and rides high on confidence
A girl stands in line in front of a bus with other passengers traveling to Nairobi. They are in the town of Mandera at the Kenya-Somalia border where terrorist group al-Shabab has launched attacks against non-Muslims.
Conflict
On an embattled bus, Kenyan Muslims protect Christians from massacre
Muslims attend a mass prayer at the Dongguan Great Mosque, in Xining, Qinghai province, China. The Islamic State has a song in Mandarin calling on Chinese Muslims to join the jihad.
Culture
ISIS uses soothing music as a recruiting tool — in China
Marine Le Pen's Front National has seen a breakthrough in its popularity since the Paris attacks
Global Politics
France’s hard right says ‘without question’ it is the first party of France
Pandas in pollution
Environment
Coal is at the root of both climate woes and record pollution levels in Beijing
Belgium hotbed for terrorists
Conflict
Belgium’s fractured nature makes it tough to deal with would-be terrorists
Inmates leave the exercise yard at San Quentin state prison in San Quentin, California.
Justice
Get out of jail, get deported.
Tourists enjoy the beach at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt
Conflict
Egypt’s tourist industry takes another blow
charlie hebdo
Conflict
Has French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo lost its spirit?
Syrian family embrace after making journey to Greece
Conflict
This will challenge your misconceptions about the refugee crisis
Tearful reunion between families separated by the North and South Korean war.
Global Politics
North and South Korea renew plans to reunite families separated by war
Mother of one of the 43 missing Mexican students asks for justice
Conflict
Human rights officials cast doubts on Mexican government’s claims regarding the 43 missing students
Can the US catch up to Russia in obtaining more icebreakers?
Global Politics
A new ‘cold war’ is emerging between the US and Russia — over icebreakers
The Temple of Bel in the historical city of Palmyra, Syria, August 4, 2010. UNITAR has confirmed with satellite images that ISIS has destroyed the ancient temple.
Conflict
ISIS continues its demolition of Syrian heritage with the destruction of the Temple of Bel
Lee Jin-ri had been abandoned at a "baby box" at South Korean church. The "baby box" is where mothers can leave unwanted infants. South Korea was the first country to send its babies abroad for adoption.
Development
How South Korea became the first country to start international adoptions