Joy Powers
Joy Powers joined WUWM January 2016 as producer for Lake Effect. Most recently, she was a director and producer for The Afternoon Shift, on WBEZ-fm, Chicago Public Radio.
Joy grew up in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, where she started off her career in radio as an intern at WLKG-fm, The Lake. She has worked as an intern with several companies, including SiriusXm, Fujisankei Communications and the Department of City Planning for the City of New York. At SiriusXM, she was a programming intern and helped launch Studio54 Radio.
She earned a bachelors degree in broadcast journalism from Emerson College, Boston, where she worked with several radio and television stations. She was the public affairs director at WERS-fm, and produced the station’s AP-Award Winning program, You Are Here.
She just moved to Milwaukee’s East Side, where she lives with her pet cat Misses. Joy spends much of her free time drawing, painting and practicing the mandolin.
» Twitter: @thejoypowers
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Over a quarter-century ago, the Milwaukee Brewers debuted their racing sausages. Now, nearly two-thirds of baseball teams have their own racing mascots, including a tooth, dumplings and presidents. -
Nearly two-thirds of Major League Baseball teams have had some form of mascot race. It all began with the Milwaukee Brewers' Racing Sausages in the early 1990s.
