Cass Herrington
Cass Herrington is BPR's Morning Edition host and news reporter. Her reporting largely focuses on stories dealing with health, race, and immigration.
Before joining BPR in 2019, Herrington spent nearly seven years writing, reporting and hosting for NPR stations in Illinois and Indiana.
Her reporting has earned numerous awards, including the designations of best reporter by the Associated Press Broadcaster鈥檚 Associations in Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky.
In 2015, Cass received a prestigious national Edward R. Murrow award for a show she produced about non-verbal teens with Autism who rely on iPads to communicate.
A Kentucky native, Herrington graduated from the University of Kentucky with a degree in journalism, international studies and Spanish. She's fluent in Spanish, loves to travel, and is a proud, bleed-blue Kentucky Wildcats fan.
Herrington also co-hosts a podcast, called Skillet, about the intersection of food and memory.
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Numerous studies on childbirth in the US present a grim fact -- racial disparities persist in the delivery room. Rates of maternal and infant mortality... -
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