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colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Ayesha_Rascoe_8125997.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Ayesha_Rascoe_8125997.jpg/220px-Ayesha_Rascoe_8125997.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="253" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Ayesha_Rascoe_8125997.jpg/330px-Ayesha_Rascoe_8125997.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Ayesha_Rascoe_8125997.jpg/440px-Ayesha_Rascoe_8125997.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3001" data-file-height="3456" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Rascoe reading at the 2023 <a href="/wiki/National_Book_Festival" title="National Book Festival">National Book Festival</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1985-06-10</span>) </span>June 10, 1985<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 39)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Howard_University" title="Howard University">Howard University</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">BA</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role">Journalist</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;">Patrick Trice</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 2012)<wbr /></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Ayesha Rascoe</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'r' in 'rye'">r</span><span title="/ɑː/: 'a' in 'father'">ɑː</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span><span title="'k' in 'kind'">k</span><span title="/oʊ/: 'o' in 'code'">oʊ</span></span>/</a></span></span>; born June 10, 1985) is an American journalist who hosts <i><a href="/wiki/Weekend_Edition" title="Weekend Edition">Weekend Edition Sunday</a></i> on <a href="/wiki/NPR" title="NPR">NPR</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She previously served as an NPR <a href="/wiki/White_House" title="White House">White House</a> correspondent and covered the <a href="/wiki/Obama_White_House" class="mw-redirect" title="Obama White House">Obama White House</a> for <a href="/wiki/Reuters" title="Reuters">Reuters</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-capitalcityhues.com_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-capitalcityhues.com-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ayesha_Rascoe&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ayesha Rascoe was born on June 10, 1985.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Current_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Current-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She grew up in <a href="/wiki/Durham,_North_Carolina" title="Durham, North Carolina">Durham</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a>, and attended <a href="/wiki/Carrington_Middle_School" class="mw-redirect" title="Carrington Middle School">Carrington Middle School</a> and <a href="/wiki/Southern_High_School_(Durham,_North_Carolina)" class="mw-redirect" title="Southern High School (Durham, North Carolina)">Southern High School</a>, where she was editor-in-chief of the school newspaper.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was also a columnist for the teen section of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Herald-Sun_(Durham,_North_Carolina)" title="The Herald-Sun (Durham, North Carolina)">The Herald-Sun</a></i> and interned for the <i><a href="/wiki/Winston-Salem_Journal" title="Winston-Salem Journal">Winston-Salem Journal</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2007, she earned a B.A. in journalism from <a href="/wiki/Howard_University" title="Howard University">Howard University</a>, where she was editor-in-chief of the student newspaper <a href="/wiki/The_Hilltop_(newspaper)" title="The Hilltop (newspaper)"><i>The Hilltop</i></a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-capitalcityhues.com_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-capitalcityhues.com-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ayesha_Rascoe&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Rascoe began her reporting career at Reuters, where she covered environment policy, including the <a href="/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill" title="Deepwater Horizon oil spill">Deepwater Horizon oil spill</a> and the response to the <a href="/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster" class="mw-redirect" title="Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster">Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster</a> in 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-pbs_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pbs-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rascoe moved to NPR in 2017. As White House correspondent, her stories were regularly broadcast on the NPR shows <i><a href="/wiki/Morning_Edition" title="Morning Edition">Morning Edition</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/All_Things_Considered" title="All Things Considered">All Things Considered</a>,</i> and she appeared regularly on NPR's <i>Politics Podcast</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In March 2022 she began hosting NPR's <a href="/wiki/Weekend_Edition" title="Weekend Edition"><i>Weekend Edition Sunday</i></a> and co-hosting the Saturday edition of their <i><a href="/wiki/Up_First" title="Up First">Up First</a></i> podcast with <a href="/wiki/Scott_Simon" title="Scott Simon">Scott Simon</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On June 11, 2023, she succeeded <a href="/wiki/Rachel_Martin" title="Rachel Martin">Rachel Martin</a> as host of <i>Up First's</i> <i>The Sunday Story</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rascoe's regional North Carolina accent and distinctive pronunciation that "sounds Black" has received both positive and negative feedback from listeners.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>She has appeared on <i><a href="/wiki/Washington_Week" title="Washington Week">Washington Week</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Meet_the_Press" title="Meet the Press"><i>Meet The Press</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/CNN" title="CNN">CNN</a> and <a href="/wiki/MSNBC" title="MSNBC">MSNBC</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-pbs_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pbs-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rascoe edited <i>HBCU Made: A Celebration of the Black College Experience,</i> a collection (January 30, 2024) of essays by graduates of <a href="/wiki/Historically_black_colleges_and_universities" title="Historically black colleges and universities">historically Black colleges and universities</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ayesha_Rascoe&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Rascoe married Patrick Trice, a U.S. veteran, in 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She has three children.<sup id="cite_ref-Current_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Current-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ayesha_Rascoe&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output 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