Meet Lori Lizarraga—Our Newest Co-host

Code Switch

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4.6 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

From the world of local TV news, meet Code Switch's newest co-host, Lori Lizarraga! Before she was born, her mother had the nickname "Lori" ready for her, even though her legal name is Laura. The story behind why starts more than a decade before she was born, when Lori's mom came to the U.S. as a kid and had to make a difficult decision.

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0:00.0	What's good, y'all?
0:03.0	You are listening to Go Switch from MPR.
0:05.7	I'm Jean Dampi.
0:06.6	And I'm B.A. Parker.
0:07.8	This is a special episode, y'all,
0:09.2	because we're going to introduce you to someone
0:11.0	that we have been getting to know
0:12.4	over the last couple months.
0:13.6	Yeah, this is me up like that.
0:14.9	Hi, y'all.
0:15.5	I'm Lori Lizaraga.
0:16.6	I am so proud and excited to be here with you all tonight.
0:19.6	Yay!
0:20.6	Yay!
0:21.6	That was from our live show in Chicago.
0:24.5	That's the voice of Lori Lizaraga, our third and newest
0:27.8	coast.
0:28.8	Part of us getting to know Lori is getting to know her work.
0:32.0	So Lori comes to us from the World of TV News.
0:33.9	She's been reporting at Local Outlets in Texas,
0:36.3	in California, in Colorado.
0:38.9	Telling a story through art is what Davi Garcia does.
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