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Rachel Iacovone (ee-AH-koh-VOAN-ay) is a proud puertorriqueña, who joined ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø to report on her community in the Constitution State. Her work is in collaboration with Somos CT, a ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø 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.

Before all that, she was a food writer in college and never really left that lens behind. She's excited to eat her way through the ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø food scene, so please, send recs (and serious story pitches) to her anytime here: riacovone@ctpublic.org.