Arezou Rezvani
Senior Editor, Morning Edition
Arezou Rezvani is a reporter and senior editor for NPR's Morning Edition. She's also founding editor of Up First, NPR's daily news podcast.
Much of her work centers on people experiencing some of the most difficult days of their lives. She has spent time with child coal miners in Afghanistan, families in Syria looking for loved ones who disappeared under Bashar al-Assad's rule, children in Ukraine wounded in Russian airstrikes. From Islamic State fighters to war widows, she takes listeners to people and places they would otherwise never hear from or visit.
Her work on a multi-part series about children and opioid addiction won a Gracie Award in 2019. She was awarded a White House News Photographer Association Award for Politics is Personal, an audio/visual project she led ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.
In 2014, she led an investigation into the Pentagon's 1033 program, which supplies local law enforcement with surplus military-grade weapons and vehicles. The findings were cited by lawmakers during hearings on Capitol Hill and contributed to the Obama administration's decision to scale back the program.
Rezvani holds a master's degree in journalism from the University of Southern California and bachelor's degrees in political science and French from the University of California, Davis. She lives in Los Angeles.
