National Public Radio affiliate WFYI in Indianapolis has hired Pria Mahadevan as its business and economy reporter.
Mahadevan was previously a podcast news producer at Georgia Public Broadcasting’s podcasting division, where she helps put together original shows like “Georgia Today.” Prior to joining the podcasting team, she was a producer for “On Second Thought.”
She got her start in radio through KALW’s Audio Academy program in San Francisco
Mahadevan studied cognitive neuroscience and Spanish at Washington University in St. Louis, and later worked as a financial consultant in Boston and taught English at a university in Brazil on a Fulbright scholarship.