Elissa Nadworny
Elissa Nadworny reports on all things college for NPR, following big stories like unprecedented enrollment declines, college affordability, the student debt crisis and workforce training. During the 2020-2021 academic year, she traveled to dozens of campuses to document what it was like to reopen during the coronavirus pandemic. Her work has won several awards including a 2020 Gracie Award for a story about student parents in college, a 2018 James Beard Award for a story about the Chinese-American population in the Mississippi Delta and a 2017 Edward R. Murrow Award for excellence in innovation.
Nadworny uses multiplatform storytelling – incorporating radio, print, comics, photojournalism, and video — to put students at the center of her coverage. Some favorite story adventures include crawling in the sewers below campus to test wastewater for the coronavirus, yearly deep-dives into the most popular high school plays and musicals and an epic search for the history behind her classroom skeleton.
Before joining NPR in 2014, Nadworny worked at Bloomberg News, reporting from the White House. A recipient of the McCormick National Security Journalism Scholarship, she spent four months reporting on U.S. international food aid for USA Today, traveling to Jordan to talk with Syrian refugees about food programs there.
Originally from Erie, Pa., Nadworny has a bachelor's degree in documentary film from Skidmore College and a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.
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It's been more than two years since the Supreme Court overturned a federal right to abortion and gave the issue to the states. 2025 could be the year states start battling each other in court.
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Missouri voters moved to end the state's strict abortion ban in the November election but it's unclear whether the treatment will be available Thursday, the deadline for the amendment to take effect.
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Abortion rights were on the ballot in 10 states this election, and the results were mixed. In Missouri, voters opted to dramatically expand access, while Florida's vote came close but failed.
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The results could end up dramatically expanding access to abortion, and influencing the presidential and congressional elections.
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Vice President Harris has said if she’s elected president, she’ll sign a bill enshrining the right to an abortion. Former President Donald Trump also has talked about abortion.
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Financial aid funds that help women pay for abortions — or travel to other states to access care — are struggling financially, despite abortion's role in this year's elections. -
Abortion rights advocates and providers are suing Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, seeking to block him from prosecuting people who help patients travel outside the state to end pregnancies.
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Voters in Arizona and Missouri will be asked to weigh in on the right to an abortion in November. That makes eight states so far that will have ballot measures around reproductive rights.
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Two years after the Supreme Court removed federal abortion protections, the number of abortions is up as telehealth is on the rise and reproductive rights are on the ballot in November.
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More family medicine and primary care doctors are doing abortions and questioning why it's been separated from other care for decades.
