Arlo Pérez Esquivel

Host/Reporter

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Arlo Pérez Esquivel joined Colorado Public Radio in 2024.

Professional background:
Arlo has a background in filmmaking and public media. He is best known for co-hosting NOVA’s Antarctic Extremes, a series that explores the daily life of Antarctic scientists and the community that supports them. Most recently, Arlo produced PBS Digital Studios’ America Outdoors: Understory with Baratunde Thurston, an ambitious series that tells the stories of communities across the country and their relationship to the outdoors.

Education: Arlo has a Bachelor's degree from Boston College where he double majored in Political Science and Filmmaking.

Awards: In 2021 he won a AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award for his documentary about the underreporting of COVID-19 cases in his Mexican hometown.

The red and white smokestack of Xcel Energy’s coal-powered Cherokee Generating Station
Colorado Today

July 21, 2025: Trump tries to force coal plants open, Denver bond, public media funding, Eisenhower Tunnel history

The Trump administration is trying to force Colorado to keep its coal plants open, over state objections. Then, Denver’s mayor hopes to ask voters for almost a billion dollars in bonds. But it’s already drawing pushback, and comes as the city plans to cut jobs. Plus, how public radio and television plans to stay on the air without federal funds. And, those tunnels you get stuck at on I-70? Have you ever considered their names?
By Arlo Pérez Esquivel