Meet Jasmine! And her new pod, “Sacred Scandal: Nation of Saints”

Do you listen carefully to our credits every week? Then you might’ve heard of our “silent contributor,” Jasmine Romero, who has been editing “This Is Uncomfortable” for the past year and a half. And all along, she’s also been working on another podcast of her own, “Sacred Scandal: Nation of Saints.” It’s a show with a lot of Uncomfortable themes — immigration, family secrets and how money messes with politics — that TIU listeners are sure to appreciate.

We’re sharing the first episode of Jasmine’s new pod, and to tee it up, Reema sits down with Jasmine to talk about how she reported this deeply personal story about the Salvadoran Civil War, the assassination of a beloved archbishop, and an unsolved murder in her own family. Reema and Jasmine reflect on how the show connects to current news events, and they bond over the challenges of interviewing their own parents, as Reema did for our recent episode, “A conversation with Baba.”

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