Producer Appreciation Weeks: Cat Sposato

The Takeaway

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🗓️ 26 May 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

As part of our farewell to The Takeaway, host Melissa Harris-Perry sits down with the people behind the scenes who make The Takeaway happen. Today, we're taking a look at some of the work done by Cat Sposato while here on the show. Some of her favorite segments include: Unpacking the Parkland Shooter VerdictA Conversation with MacArthur Fellow Kiese LaymonHurricanes, Puerto Rico and Bad Bunny's "El Apagón"The Polarizing Popularity of Pickleball Cat joined The Takeaway team in September 2022, while in the final semester of her Master's program at New York University's Journalism Institute. Previously, she's worked at NPR Music and their Alt.Latino podcast, and covered entertainment for NPR's Weekend All Things Considered. Her work has been featured in V Magazine and VMAN. In her spare time, she runs a Substack newsletter called Pop-Closure, where she rants and raves about all of the moments across our culture that she cannot get over. Originally from Passaic, New Jersey, Cat is passionate about telling the stories of communities like hers. You can find more of her work on Instagram, TikTok and Twitter at @CatVeryPopular and at catmariesposato.com

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0:00.0	I'm Melissa Harris Perry, and this is The Takeaway. We're counting down the days to our final
0:08.9	episode on Friday, June 2nd. And we're spending these days on something we think is really important.
0:16.1	We're saying thank you to the producers of Team Takeaway, who poured their hearts, souls, and talent,
0:22.8	and to make a great radio for all of you to enjoy. Yes, y'all, these are our producer
0:29.0	appreciation weeks. And today, we're highlighting work of one of our newest team members,
0:34.9	Katz Vassado. Hi, Melissa. Thank you so much for having me today.
0:39.0	Absolutely. Now, as one of the newer members of the team, you had a pretty busy start here.
0:44.5	Tell us about it. I did. I started in September and was actually finishing my last semester of grad
0:50.2	school during my first three months at the takeaway. Which is wild.
0:54.8	I mean, you were working full-time and you were a full-time student.
0:59.4	All that, and you're still just 24 years old, right?
1:02.6	Yes, I am.
1:04.2	I was born in 1999, a year that has historical significance when it comes to this first
1:10.2	topic we're about to discuss.
1:12.3	It's the same year of the Columbine shooting.
1:15.0	And according to research conducted by Professor Ralph Larkin at John Jay College,
1:20.1	Columbine significantly influenced this trend of school rampage killings across the U.S.
1:25.5	I will never forget Columbine. I mean, a mass shooting of that
1:29.9	kind in an American school, it was simply unheard of at the time. And I can remember thinking I would
1:37.5	always remember where I was when it happened, because surely nothing like this would happen again.
1:44.4	But I was naive.
1:46.8	I mean, Kat, I've spent more than a decade in national media,
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