Roxanne Scott

Roxanne Scott is an audio journalist in New York. Before Futuro, she was a reporter at public radio stations WABE News in Atlanta and WFPL News in Louisville, Kentucky. In her five years in public radio she’s covered various topics including the erased history of Black people in bourbon making, disparities in gifted and talented enrollment and the spread of COVID in ICE detention centers.

She was awarded a travel grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting to report on food and global health in Nigeria. She was also an International Women’s and Media Foundation fellow where she got to report in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Roxanne is originally from Queens, New York and can be found on Jamaica Avenue in a fabric store or eating a beef patty.