Jasmine Garsd is an Argentine-American journalist and immigration correspondent for National Public Radio. She began her career as host of NPR’s hit music and culture podcast, Alt.Latino.
She left Alt.Latino to become a reporter in Latin America, where her work focused on the impact drug wars and immigration policy have on women and girls. She spent time documenting the lives of Colombia’s female FARC combatants attempting to reintegrate into everyday life, how young girls in El Salvador are particularly affected by American immigration policy, and the steep cost migrant women pay to come to the U.S. Her work has been featured on This American Life, Radio Ambulante and in The New Yorker, and has earned several Gracie Awards, a Peabody and an Overseas Press Club Lowell Thomas Award.
In 2022, she switched gears to create NPR’s hit bilingual podcast, The Last Cup/La Última Copa, about soccer and immigration. The podcast tells the story of Garsd’s own family’s immigration to the U.S., alongside the journey of soccer star Lionel Messi.
Garsd is currently writing a musical alongside acclaimed Argentine musician Sofia Rei, based on three generations of women they both met on a reporting trip to Nebraska. They’ve received funding grants from the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures, the 2026 Democracy Cycle and the 2026 Creative Capital Grant.
She is also currently writing her first book, When I Woke Up, The Monster Was Still There: An Immigration Story, about the women she has interviewed during the second Trump Administration.
She lives in Queens, New York. She and her partner share two cats, Draculina and Toshiro Mifune.