Jeff Pfeiffer
Jeff Pfeiffer is a history producer at PBS Wisconsin. He is originally from New Jersey, and lives in Madison with his wife, son, dog and cat. He loves snacks and has a passing interest in maritime history.
Anya van Wagtendonk
Anya van Wagtendonk is the State Capitol Reporter for Wisconsin Public Radio. Born and raised in beautiful western Massachusetts, she’s a New England maple syrup partisan but has come around on Wisconsin sports (Bucks in Six forever.)
John Klungness
At 92 years old, John Klungness is a retired research engineer from the US Forest Products Laboratory in Madison. Born in Superior to Norwegian immigrants, he now resides with his wife, Meg, in Bayfield, where he dabbles in writing, gardening and choir singing.
Richelle Wilson
Richelle Wilson is a producer for WPR’s “Wisconsin Today.” In her free time, she co-hosts a film club, DJs trivia nights and shops at indie bookstores with little to no regard for her overstuffed bookshelves at home.
Stacy Parish
Stacy Parish is an award winning storyteller, producer and educator in Appleton Wisconsin, who’s been honing her craft for almost 25 years. What began as a career in professional broadcasting has evolved onto performing stages across the nation.
Morgan D. Stewart
Morgan D. Stewart is an actor, writer, and producer living her dreams in Madison, Wisconsin.
Jess Miller
Jess Miller performs several functions under the title of production assistant for Wisconsin Life, including producing segments, posting to social media and writing newsletters. He came to Wisconsin by way of Virginia.
Mallory Cheng
Mallory Cheng is a midday host and podcast producer at Wisconsin Public Radio. She’s originally from Chicago, and is now a converted cheese curd connoisseur.
Anna Marie Yanny
Anna Marie Yanny is the 2024-2025 Lee Ester News Fellow and a general assignment reporter in WPR’s Madison newsroom. Since moving to Wisconsin, she’s frozen her eyelashes, adored the bike trails, and eaten a brat at Lambeau.
Nick Rommel
Nick Rommel is the 2024-25 Reporting Fellow in WPR’s Milwaukee newsroom. Originally from Massachusetts, his first day of work at WPR was also his first day ever in Wisconsin. But between Spotted Cow, Henning’s Garlic & Dill Cheddar Cheese, and polka music, he doesn’t know how he’ll ever manage to leave.
The Moth
The Moth is an acclaimed nonprofit organization dedicated to the art and craft of true personal storytelling. Since 1997, The Moth has presented over 60,000 stories, told live and without notes to standing-room-only crowds worldwide, in order to create a more empathetic world.
McKenna Scherer
McKenna Scherer is an editor at “Volume One” magazine, an independent biweekly arts and culture publication, in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. A born-and-raised Wisconsinite and award-winning journalist, she is always on the hunt for good coffee, great food, and a trinket or two to add to her shelves.
Amy Fleury
Amy Fleury is the author of two collections of poems, Beautiful Trouble and Sympathetic Magic, and a chapbook, Reliquaries of the Lesser Saints. She teaches writing and literature at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
David Shih
David Shih is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, The New Republic, The Progressive, Slate, NPR’s Code Switch, Electric Literature, Literary Hub, and Inside Higher Ed.
Heewone Lim
Heewone Lim is the Wisconsin Life/Wisconsin 101 intern for summer 2024. She’s a “semi-native” Wisconsinite who loves writing (and acting in) bad sketch comedy, making goofy ceramic trinkets and coming home to Madison after long trips.