Since 2020, she has been a co-host and reporter for the NPR show Pop Culture Happy Hour.

[1][2] Her father, Frank Harris III, is a professor and former journalist for the Hartford Courant.

[12][13][14] While at the Times, she joined a number of her colleagues at both the NYT and the Philadelphia Inquirer in a one-day walkout over issues in the newspapers' coverage of racial justice protests in 2020.

[15] Since 2020, Harris has been a co-host of the NPR podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour with Linda Holmes, Stephen Thompson, and Glen Weldon.

[16][17][18] In December 2013, Harris wrote a piece for Slate examining the cultural origins of Santa Claus and suggesting that the near-ubiquitous representation of Santa as white could be eschewed in favor of a wider symbol, such as an animal.