Josie Guarino joined our news team in 2016. She is a WBUR mid-day and evening news host, as well as a writer and producer for WBUR's All Things Considered.

Prior to WBUR, Guarino was a Morning Edition and All Things Considered news host at Rhode Island's NPR news station in Providence.

She also worked as a TV reporter and news anchor in Rhode Island, where she hung out with NBC's Kristen Welker, now host of "Meet the Press." She covered politics in the Ocean State, that "gift that keeps on giving" before moving onto the crime beat.

Her on-camera debut happened in Bangor, Maine on New Year's Eve in 1999 covering Y2K — the feared widespread computer crash that never happened. That gave her the opportunity to display her tap-dancing skills in front of the camera. She was a general assignment reporter who covered stories from monitoring black bears in Madawaska to events in tony Kennebunkport.

Previously, Guarino also worked for CBS as an associate producer for the crime show "48-Hours," where she helped to develop a two-part series on the 2002 Christa Worthington murder on Cape Cod.

Guarino has had many radio stints over the years, including at WQRC, WXTK and WATD. She wrote and produced environmental features for the community radio station WOMR in Provincetown on Lyme disease, the plight of right whales and lobstering. She's earned awards from The Associated Press and the Massachusetts Broadcasters Association.

She's a 4th-degree black belt in taekwondo. In her free time, you may find her in the "dojang" training for her 5th degree.

Her other hobbies include skiing, exploring new recipes and writing poetry/songs. She's also teaching herself how to play the guitar in an attempt to impress her musically talented son.