Portillo briefed National Press Foundation fellows in January 2024: Covering Childcare Through an Economic Lens. 

Ely Portillo is the Interim Executive Editor at 90.7 WFAE, Charlotte’s NPR news source. He is also the interim editor for race and equity coverage. Before joining WFAE in 2022, he worked at the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute. From 2009 through 2019, he covered news about Charlotte’s growth, development and growing pains as a journalist at the Charlotte Observer. A graduate of Harvard University and UNC-Chapel Hill, he lives in Charlotte with his wife and two children.