Interviewing Lisa Morgan, a teacher from Lake Charles, in Lafayette, La.
Photo by Katie Sikora, December 2020.
Interviewing food writer Ian McNulty at Jazz Fest in New Orleans.
Photo by Katie Sikora, April 2022.
I’m a journalist, radio producer, and writer in New Orleans.
I'm currently the metro reporter for New Orleans' NPR station, where I focus on housing, transportation, and city government. If you've got a story idea or tip, give me a shout at carly@wwno.org.
From April 2020 through December 2021, I was the Gulf Coast Correspondent for Southerly, where my work focused on disaster recovery across south Louisiana during two record-breaking hurricane seasons. Much of that reporting centered on the aftermath of Hurricanes Laura and Delta in Lake Charles, and was supported by a grant from the Pulitzer Center.
As a freelancer, I've written about everything from refugee resettlement in Georgia for the Bitter Southerner, to the oil industry and incarceration in Louisiana for Scalawag, to a traveling rabbi serving the South's small-town synagogues for the Oxford American.
I grew up in Atlanta and earned a BA in English with a Creative Writing concentration from Bowdoin College in 2018.
Find me on Twitter @carly_berlin.