Stacey Vanek Smith is a longtime public radio reporter and host, highly regarded for her insight and journalism on work, business, and economics. Stacey previously served as a correspondent and host of NPR’s Planet Money, as well as the national public radio show Marketplace. She was the creator and host of NPR’s daily podcast, The Indicator from Planet Money. She currently serves as the Global Economics Correspondent for NPR.
She is author of Machiavelli for Women, 2021, a deep dive into workplace inequity, including the pay gap and promotion gap, and what research shows can help overcome some of those obstacles.
A native of Idaho, Stacey grew up in Boise and on her parents’ cattle ranch in western Idaho. She is a graduate of Princeton University and holds a master’s in broadcast journalism from Columbia University. She was awarded the Ferris Teaching Grant from Princeton University in 2019 and taught a course in audio journalism.
Stacey lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she spends most of her time broadcasting out of her broom closet, hiking, cooking, rock climbing, and watching too much Netflix.
