About

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 for NPR’s Planet Money and founding host of NPR’s daily podcast, The Indicator from Planet Money. Before coming to NPR, she worked at the national public radio show Marketplace. She is currently the Global Economics Correspondent for NPR. Her work has appeared on All things Considered, Consider This, Morning Edition, Up First, How I Built This, Rough Translation, as well as in The Washington Post, Time Magazine, The New York Times, The Awl and People Magazine.

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 unholy amounts of Netflix. Stacey’s father was a major inspiration for her career—instilling a love of history, economics and literature in her from an early age. Stacey’s mother is an accomplished painter—you can check out her work here.