Zac Schultz
Zac Schultz is a reporter for the “Wisconsin Life” project who thinks three-minute stories and one-line bio descriptions are woefully brief.
Joel Waldinger
Joel Waldinger is a reporter for the “Wisconsin Life” project and considers a sunset over the “big island” on Manson Lake to be a perfect ending to a day of fishing and fun in the Northwoods.
Frederica Freyberg
Frederica Freyberg is a reporter for the “Wisconsin Life” project who once won a sportsmen’s club fly-fishing casting contest up north and turned the tackle box prize into a makeup case.
Andy Soth
Andy Soth is a reporter for the “Wisconsin Life” project who grew up in a neighboring state but now loves Wisconsin because it’s like Minnesota without the smugness. He joined PBS Wisconsin in 1991 and has spent time at work in the operations, digital, production services, history, news, and local series units.
Scott Stetson
Scott Stetson is an illustrator/animator for the Wisconsin Life project. He is a lifelong Midwesterner and Wisconsinite since 2007.
Shauna Singh Baldwin
Shauna Singh Baldwin is a Canadian-American novelist of Indian descent. Her 2000 novel What the Body Remembers won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and her 2004 novel The Tiger Claw was nominated for the Giller Prize.
Julie Buckles
Julie Buckles is a writer in Ashland and the author of Paddling to Winter. She was born in the driftless region of Wisconsin and raised on a 47-acre dairy farm. She now lives near Washburn with her husband, Charly, two children and a team of Siberian huskies.
Marcia Bjornerud
Marcia Bjornerud is a professor of Geology at Lawrence University, and the author of the Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth.
Tony D’Alessandro
Dr. Tony D’Alessandro heads the division of transplant surgery at the U.W. Hospital and Clinics. “Wisconsin Innovations” is on display at the Wisconsin Historical Museum in Madison.
Anne Helke
Anne Helke is the online content producer for the “Wisconsin Life” project who grew up on a lone draft horse farm in the midst of dairy farms in north-central Wisconsin, which was great until she realized you can’t get string cheese from draft horses.
Erika Kachama-Nkoy
Erika Kachama-Nkoy is a web developer and designer at PBS Wisconsin with a keen interest in exploring Wisconsin.
Marie Kohler
Marie Kohler is an award-winning playwright, actor, and writer in Milwaukee. She’s written five plays including “Counting Days” which earned a nomination for the American Association of Theater Critics’ Best New Regional Play.
Crystal Chan
Crystal Chan grew up as a mixed-race kid in the middle of the Wisconsin cornfields and has been trying to find her place in the world ever since. Over time, she found that her heart lies in public speaking, performing, and ultimately, writing.
Jesse Gant
Jesse Gant is the co-author of the book, Wheel Fever: How Wisconsin Became a Great Bicycling State.