The protests in Iran have been about human rights, corruption, freedom — but they were sparked by economic hardship, caused in part by U.S. sanctions. How did they play into the events in Iran?
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Mary Childs
Mary Childs (she/her) is a co-host for NPR's Planet Money podcast and the author of the bestselling book, The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All. Before joining the team in 2019, she was a senior reporter at Barron's magazine, where she covered the alternatives industry, the bond market and capitalism. Before that, she worked at the Financial Times and Bloomberg News. She's written about the pioneering of new asset classes like time, billionaire's proposals to solve inequality and diversity and discrimination in the finance industry. Before all that, she was also a Watson Fellow, spending a year traveling the world painting portraits. She graduated from Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, with a degree in business journalism and an honors thesis comparing the use and significance of media sting operations in the U.S. and India.
