Full Name
Halle Parker
Job Title
Environment Reporter
Organization/School
New Orleans Public Radio
Speaker Bio
Halle reports on the environment for WWNO's Coastal Desk. Her coverage spans a wide range of topics, from issues of environmental justice, Louisiana's ongoing coastal land loss crisis, the energy transition and climate change. Her work has been aired nationally on NPR programs such as Morning Edition, Here and Now, and All Things Considered. She also co-hosts the podcast Sea Change, which focuses on climate change and other environmental problems plaguing the Gulf Coast. Before coming to New Orleans Public Radio, she covered Louisiana's environment for The Times-Picayune | New Orleans Advocate and down the bayou for the Houma Courier. She also worked for the National Audubon Society, the Danville Register & Bee and the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Halle is from a small town in Virginia and graduated from Longwood University with a Communication Studies degree in 2018.
Halle Parker