Lauren Terrazas
ProducerLauren Terrazas is an El Paso native and produces "Morning Edition" and "Fronteras" for Texas Public Radio. She began her work in broadcasting as an intern at KTEP, El Paso’s public radio station. While at KTEP, she went to become a production assistant and then chief announcer for "Morning Edition."
Lauren supervised part-time student employees and interns while producing local public affairs programs. She also created KTEP’s first production handbook.
She received her bachelor of arts degree in organizational and corporate communication from the University of Texas at El Paso in 2017 and is currently pursuing her master’s in public administration at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
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Nineteen-year-old Franklin Barrett Sechriest was handed down a three-count indictment for allegedly starting the Oct. 31 blaze at Congregation Beth Israel. -
The 2019 Walmart mass shooting was bookended by more than a year of isolation from the pandemic. This year, the border city’s music and arts organizations came together for a performance to honor the 23 lives lost and serve as a cathartic healing experience for the community. -
The United States’ founding documents tout liberty and freedom, but the country’s painful history of racial violence must be reckoned with, according to one Texas public historian, if further acts of violence are to be averted. -
Monica Muñoz Martinez’s research on state-sanctioned violence against Mexicans and Mexican-Americans on the border in the early 20th Century has landed her in the national spotlight. The historian and University of Texas at Austin professor is among this year’s MacArthur Fellows. -
Book deserts are not uncommon for lower income communities. A new initiative aims to remedy the lack of access to literature in San Antonio’s West Side, while also amplifying the rich culture of the community and featuring diverse authors often removed from mainstream narratives or not commonly found in popular chain bookstores. -
Co-authors Mando Rayo and Suzanne García-Mateus intentionally wrote the book in Spanglish as a way to break shame associated with the language and instead embrace it as a cultural cornerstone for bilingual households and communities. -
Latino misrepresentation in the entertainment industry results from the lack of Latino representation in the media. -
Brownsville native and writer, Oscar Cásares, penned an article last year after losing a cousin to COVID-19. Like many, he was left to grieve in isolation, but he turned to a cultural tradition as a source of healing: Día de los Muertos. Cásares’ article memorialized loved ones lost to the virus and will be featured in an upcoming collection by Texas Monthly. -
Testigos, incluidos miembros del Congreso, obstetras y ginecólogos y Gloria Steinem, hablaron ante el Comité de Supervisión y Reforma de la Cámara de Representantes de los EE. UU. a favor de aprobar una legislación federal para reemplazar la prohibición del aborto de seis semanas en Texas y garantizar el acceso a los servicios de salud reproductiva. -
In the book, “South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War,” historian Alice Baumgartner examines the U.S. and Mexico’s complicated ties to slavery and how Mexico’s stance on slavery had a major influence on politics to the North.
