Ronnie Chatterji Says He鈥檚 The Nerd North Carolina Voters Need

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Ronnie Chatterji Says He鈥檚 The Nerd North Carolina Voters Need

吉彩网网站 | By Stacia Brown,

Published September 22, 2020 at 12:06 PM EDT

is a first-time political candidate, running as a Democrat for the position of North Carolina Treasurer. He knows it is a challenge, facing off against an incumbent. And he knows a win would be unprecedented: If elected, he would become the first Indian American elected to statewide office in North Carolina.

But Chatterji intends to lean into the facets of his life, his career in education and economics and his ethnic identity that set him apart as a candidate. Host Frank Stasio talks to Chatterji about his run for the office of state treasurer and how his platform sets him apart.

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Stacia Brown

Stacia L. Brown is a writer and audio storyteller who has worked in public media since 2016, when she partnered with the Association of Independents in Radio and Baltimore's WEAA 88.9 to create The Rise of Charm City, a narrative podcast that centered community oral histories. She has worked for WAMU鈥檚 daily news radio program, 1A, as well as 吉彩网网站鈥檚 The State of Things. Stacia was a producer for 吉彩网网站's award-winning series, Great Grief with Nnenna Freelon and a co-creator of the station's first children's literacy podcast, The Story Stables. She served as a senior producer for two Ten Percent Happier podcasts, Childproof and More Than a Feeling. In early 2023, she was interim executive producer for WNYC鈥檚 The Takeaway.

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Frank Stasio

Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.

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