Rachael Vasquez
Rachael Vasquez is a reporter and producer for Wisconsin Public Radio. She’s a native Californian, but her friends and family all tell her she’s grown a Wisconsin accent. She loves hot dogs, C-SPAN, and comfy sweats.
Laura Pavin
Laura Pavin is a producer with The Ideas Network of Wisconsin Public Radio. She hails from the greater Chicago area, though you wouldn’t know it by the way she eats her hot dogs (ketchup).
Andy Turner
Andy Turner is a freelance journalist, college English instructor and radio DJ living in Milwaukee. He is a music and B-movie fanatic.
Sarah Hopefl
Sarah Hopefl is a technical director on WPR’s “Wisconsin Today” and a member of the station’s engineering team. She loves Wisconsin for its live music, craft beer, hiking and biking trails.
John Davis
John Davis is a senior news producer in Wisconsin Public Radio’s La Crosse Bureau. He produces articles for WPR’s website and helps produce the regional show “Newsmakers.”
L. Malik Anderson
L. Malik Anderson is a radio producer, reporter, and online content creator born and raised on the North West side of Milwaukee. He spent most of his time inside malls, movie theaters and skating rinks growing up.
Ethan Freel
Ethan Freel is a videographer and editor for “Wisconsin Life” and has seen a Hodag in some woods Northwest of Rhinelander.
Megan Hart
Megan Hart is a Wisconsin Public Radio sports reporter based in Green Bay. A native Floridian, she’s still working up the courage to try surfing on Lake Michigan.
88Nine Radio Milwaukee
88Nine Radio Milwaukee is a non-commerical station that broadcasts on 88.9 FM. As their mission statement says, “Through music and stories created for a culturally open-minded community, 88Nine Radio Milwaukee is a catalyst for creating a better, more inclusive and engaged Milwaukee.”
Nancy Jorgensen
Nancy Jorgensen is a Waukesha, Wisconsin, writer, educator, and musician. She partnered with daughter Elizabeth Jorgensen to write the 2022 middle-grade biography, Gwen Jorgensen: USA’s First Olympic Gold Medal Triathlete (Meyer & Meyer Sport).
Yia Lor
Yia Lor is a storyteller and writer from Eau Claire. She shares her time with her family, three pups, yoga mat, and 50+ houseplants.
Sounds Like Home
The Sounds Like Home audio series covers music and everyday life in Wisconsin’s Chippewa Valley. In six episodes, we present the voices of regional musicians telling their own stories.
Sounds Like Home is an initiative of the Chippewa Valley Museum.
Folajogun Akinlami
Folajogun Akinlami is a Mandela Washington Fellow, who worked out of UW-Madison. She hosts the program “Beyond Challenges” in Nigeria.
Liz Dohms-Harter
Liz Dohms-Harter is a digital content producer for Wisconsin Public Radio. She grew up on “Mister Roger’s Neighborhood” and Braunschweiger sandwiches. A native Wisconsinite, she’s terrible at skiing, walking on ice and cutting dairy out of her diet.
Bill Amundson
Bill Amundson is a Stoughton based artist and substitute teacher who occasionally dabbles in music, writing and humor.