Raquel Maria Dillon
Editor, Morning Edition
Raquel Maria Dillon has worked on both sides of the country, on both sides of the mic, at Member stations and now as an editor with Morning Edition. She specializes in documenting wildfires and other national disasters, translating the intricacies of policy into plain English and explaining the implications of climate change.
Previously, she reported and anchored for KQED News in San Francisco, where she also produced the daily statewide California Report, edited newscasts, and covered health and education stories. Before that, she chased breaking news in Los Angeles as an Associated Press reporter. She also shot video, edited packages and reported features across the West for APTN and AP's Online Video Network. She edited and mentored up-and-coming reporters at KALW, produced social videos for Timeline.com, was a local TV news videographer for Bay Area stations, produced a weekly public affairs roundtable TV show for OPB and covered health and politics at New Hampshire Public Radio.
Her work has appeared online and in print around the globe, and on NPR's flagship newsmagazines, Marketplace, On The Media and Studio 360. She has a BA in political science from Barnard College and a MA in video journalism from UC Berkeley, where she was awarded the Faith Fancher Scholarship and a Student Emmy.
