Code Switch is the podcast for fearless conversations about race, hosted by journalists of color. The show tackles race and identity with empathy and humor. It explores how identity impacts politics, pop culture, history, food, and books — and vice versa. In 2020, Apple Podcasts named Code Switch Show of the Year, and the brilliance co-hosts Shereen Marisol Meraji and Gene Demby brought to the show was a big reason why. Meraji, who is of Puerto Rican and Iranian descent, co-created, co-hosted, and co-produced Code Switch for six years until stepping down in 2021 to focus on a Harvard University Nieman Foundation fellowship, where she explored ways for public media to attract and retain Latine audiences. Currently, she is based in the Bay Area where she is teaching at UC Berkeley’s School of Journalism and is the school’s first woman tenure track faculty member specializing in audio journalism. In September, Code Switch announced that Ecuadorian-Mexican-American journalist Lori Lizarraga would be filling Meraji’s shoes on the podcast following her departure.