Kyle Gallego-Mackie
Kyle Gallego-Mackie is a producer for NPR, supporting a range of shows and Member stations.
Prior to joining NPR in 2022, she was the news director at KHOL/Jackson Hole Community Radio, which won its first three Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards under her leadership. She helped launch, hosted and produced KHOL's flagship weekly podcast Jackson Unpacked, as well as the limited podcast series Facets: Voices of the Mountain Life. Gallego-Mackie also reported for KHOL not once – but twice – on skis!
Gallego-Mackie is a former NPR Member station reporter at WBFO in Buffalo, New York, where she covered education, immigration, racial justice and the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2018, she covered politics and culture and did video production as a reporting fellow for Haaretz in Israel and the Palestinian territories. Gallego-Mackie also reported on the European migrant crisis in the Western Balkans in 2017, chronicling the experience of an Afghan family stuck in Serbia, for her capstone project at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York. She holds a M.A. in journalism from CUNY and B.A. in international affairs and geography from The George Washington University. [Copyright 2025 NPR]
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Morning Edition's First Amendment series looks at the cost of speaking out or staying silent in the scientific community, amid pressure from colleagues or officials in Washington. -
Is academic freedom fading on U.S. campuses? A Republican student group credits Trump's election with expanding their ability to speak out, while others discuss how his policies are reshaping campus life and academic fields. -
An Idaho teacher was told by her principal to take down an "Everyone is welcome here" poster in her classroom. It's a symptom of President Trump's crackdown on discussions of inclusivity in schools. -
The Trump administration has targeted students — both those with visas and those with permanent legal status — who protested the war in Gaza. Free speech advocates warn that these are test cases. -
Many Americans worry freedom of speech is fading, while others feel empowered to say what they want. NPR's Morning Edition explores this dynamic in a new series, The State of the First Amendment.
