Vera Carothers

Vera Carothers is a writer and audio producer. Currently, she is an MFA candidate in Nonfiction Writing at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. Previously, she worked as an assistant producer at WNYC and traveled the country as a bilingual facilitator with the StoryCorps Mobile Tour. Her work has been featured on NPR’s Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Latino USA, Panoply, and Slate. She holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from Brown University, where she won the Casey Shearer Memorial Award for Excellence in Creative Nonfiction. She was also awarded the Impact Providence Grant for her work compiling a bilingual oral history of a Latino community in Rhode Island.