Seabrook received a bachelor's degree in biology from
Earlham College in 1996. While at Earlham, Seabrook worked at
WECI, the college's public radio station. As part of her degree, Seabrook studied
Latin American literature at La UNAM, The
National Autonomous University of Mexico in
Mexico City. Seabrook began reporting for NPR in 2001, after working on
Anthem, an NPR music program, and working in the Mexico Bureau and provided fill-in coverage of Mexico and Central America. She then returned to NPR headquarters in Washington, and worked on
Radio Expeditions, a joint series of NPR and
National Geographic. She then went to work on
Morning Edition The project was funded in part by a $100,724
Kickstarter campaign and a partnership with
SoundCloud. In September 2012, DecodeDC moved to the Mule Radio Podcast Syndicate. In November 2013, DecodeDC was acquired by the
E.W. Scripps Corp. Seabrook left Scripps in 2015. In June 2016, Seabrook became the DC Bureau Chief of
Marketplace with
Kai Ryssdal and then in 2017, Seabrook became the Managing Editor of Countable, the premier
civic technology app in the U.S. In 2018, Seabrook moved to
Monteverde, Costa Rica, where she founded The Monteverde News, a bilingual news organization. ==References==