Rolando Arrieta manages the Ops Desk, the team that handles the day-to-day content production and operations for the Newsroom and Programming. He also works closely with software developers in designing content management systems in an effort to maintain efficient production and publication workflows for broadcast newsmagazines, podcasts and digital story presentations.

Arrieta started his career at NPR as a producer in Cultural Programs nearly three decades ago. He is a 3-time Peabody Award recipient as a member of the team that covered the Ebola coverage in West Africa, and the Cultural Programs series “Making The Music” with Wynton Marsalis and “Jazz Profiles” with Nancy Wilson.

He is also a Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting grantee to cover the 2017 Cuban migration crisis in collaboration with Radio Ambulante, and is a Fulbright Distinguished chair, where he taught and studied sound design at the Catholic University in Porto, Portugal.