A fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City killed 146 people on this day in history, March 25, 1911 leading to a host of worker safety reforms.
Jonaki Mehta is a producer for
All Things Considered. Before ATC, she worked at Neon Hum Media where she produced a documentary series and talk show. Prior to that, Mehta was a producer at Member station KPCC and director/associate producer at
Marketplace Morning Report, where she helped shape the morning s business news.
Mehta s first job in radio was at NPR West as a National Desk intern. Her career really began when she was nine years old and insisted that the local county paper give Mehta her very own column. (She didn t get the job, but her very patient mother did somehow get her a meeting with the editor-in-chief.) Outside of work, she loves making recipes with harvests from her vegetable garden and riding her motorcycle around L.A.