Rachel Iacovone | Connecticut Public

Puerto Rican Communities Reporter

Rachel Iacovone (ee-AH-koh-VOAN-ay) is a proud puertorriqueña, who joined Connecticut Public to report on her community in the Constitution State. Her work is in collaboration with Somos CT, a Connecticut Public initiative to elevate Latino stories and expand programming that uplifts and informs our Latino communities, and with GFR in Puerto Rico.

A Florida native, Rachel began her public radio career covering politics in the fraught state — from Gov. Ron DeSantis' first gubernatorial run to labor rights issues in the farmworking town, Immokalee, for WGCU Public Media. She then headed to Tennessee in 2019, as first a host and later editor and director at Nashville Public Radio, where she spent six years covering everything from the COVID-19 pandemic to racial justice protests in a city that once hosted some of the first lunch counter sit-ins to deadly tornadoes, the Christmas Day bombing and the Covenant School shooting.