My radio reporting has aired locally on KALW, KWMR and KALX, statewide on the California Report, and nationally on NPR and Making Contact.
Podcasts
“Cooking Underground”
January 2010
The Bold Italic
A writer turns her home into a pirate restaurant for one night. LISTEN ONLINE
News
“A Curious Summer”
July 2009
Crosscurrents
It’s nearly August, a time when many parents try to get their kids out of town — to national parks, overnight camps, or just field trips to the beach. As these hazy, lazy days of summer roll around — or foggy, soggy days, if you prefer — city life can seem a little stale. But a new summer camp in San Francisco’s Mission District embraces the city for all it’s got, turning kids into urban explorers… and survivalists. LISTEN ONLINE
“Blessing of the Sun”
April 2009
The California Report
This year Passover coincides with another religious ritual. Birkat Ha-Chammah, or “blessing of the sun,” marks the sun’s return to the precise place in the sky that it was the moment of its creation, and it happens only once every 28 years. LISTEN ONLINE
“In Minnesota, Two Dreams”
August 2008
National Public Radio
On the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s I Have a Dream speech, we meet with two families — each striving for the American dream. Though they live just 10 miles apart, they face very different circumstances. One is well off, the other poor; one is black, one white. But they both value education and want a better life for their children. LISTEN ONLINE
Documentary
“We’re Not Couch Potatoes: TV Fans Get Politically Active Online”
February 2009
Making Contact
“We’re Not Couch Potatoes” is a half-hour radio documentary about the activism of TV fans during the 2007/2008 Writer’s Guild of America strike. It aired nationally on Making Contact in 2009.
