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A Look Into Felix Contreras' NPR Archive

NPR Research Archives and Data Strategy team talks with Felix Contreras on 20 years at NPR.
Felix Contreras, 2010. Doby Photography/NPR.

As stewards of the NPR archives, the RAD team bounces around NPR's history every day. Naturally, we get curious about the stories behind those archives. RAD's Julia Wohl and Zazil Davis-Vazquez decided to ask Felix Contreras, co-creator and co-host of Alt.Latino, to shed light on some of the stories that stick out to him the most after over 20 years at NPR.

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