NPR National Desk Correspondent Nathan Rott
Slow Is Smooth, and Smooth Is Fast
Nathan Rott is a correspondent on NPR’s National Desk, where he focuses on environmental issues and the American West. A graduate of the University of Montana, Rott’s varied resume includes wildland firefighting, commercial fishing, children’s theater teaching, and professional snow-shoveling for the United States Antarctic Program. Before moderating a Zócalo/Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West event that asked “How Can Humans Coexist With Monster Wildfires,” Rott stopped by the virtual Green Room to talk about the many ways he procrastinates, the scourge of putting the cover on a down …
