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Gaby Vinick

Gaby Vinick is the 2022-23 Lee Ester News Fellow with WPR. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2022 with degrees in political science and journalism. She became the managing editor of the student newspaper The Daily Cardinal her junior year, and later interned for Madison Magazine, News Not Noise, and PBS Wisconsin, and completed a political reporting training program with POLITICO.

Latest Contributed Stories

Felicia Diny, founder of the nonprofit Felicia's Donation Closet, and volunteers move a dresser and other items to furnish an apartment. (Gaby Vinick/WPR)

July 25, 2023

Felicia’s Donation Closet furnishes homes for survivors of domestic abuse in Dane County

On a windy Saturday morning in Dane, Wisconsin, Felicia Diny and her mom are combing through items stored on the second floor of a home. Diny is looking for a ...

Abby O'Callaghan takes notes during a discussion Tuesday, Jan 17, 2023, at Madison West High School in Madison, Wis. (Angela Major/WPR)

March 22, 2023

‘Representation matters’: Educators collaborate to teach histories, cultures, sovereignty of First Nations in Wisconsin

Wisconsin is one of 12 states that requires Native American content to be taught in schools. That prompted listener Maria Novotny to reach out to WPR's WHYsconsin project, asking us ...

Kay Hanley of Letters to Cleo sang onstage at The Sylvee on Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. Hanley's involvement with the benefit concert is personal, since she has a daughter with epilepsy. (Gaby Vinick/WPR)

January 19, 2023

‘He made the best of life’: How a family turned a tragedy into hope with nonprofit Joey’s Song

Mike Gomoll is not a rock star, but he knows how to get them to rally around a cause. "You start out an email or a phone call with, 'My ...

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