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  • Alex Ramos is an artist, writer and editor who specializes in media journalism and music criticism. They're a recent graduate of California College of the Arts, where they were trained in filmmaking and animation. Outside of their work at NPR, Ramos is editor-in-chief at Sunstroke Magazine, an independent publication that centers Generation Z, culture and activism.
  • Sukey Lewis is a criminal justice reporter and host of On Our Watch, a new podcast from NPR and KQED about the shadow world of police discipline. In 2018, she co-founded the California Reporting Project, a coalition of newsrooms across the state focused on obtaining previously sealed internal affairs records from law enforcement. In addition to her reporting on police accountability, Lewis has investigated the bail bonds industry, California's wildfires and the high cost of prison phone calls. Lewis earned a master's degree in journalism from the University of California at Berkeley.
  • Fiona Ritchie strolls along the main street of a small village in rural Scotland and steps through the plain doorway of an 18th century stone building. Passers-by would find it difficult to imagine what this simple gesture initiates: a weekly connection with devoted public radio listeners throughout the United States. In over two decades of broadcasts, Ritchie's radio program The Thistle & Shamrock has become one of NPR's most widely heard and best-loved music programs. She has entered the lives of millions of Americans by way of an inconspicuous studio door, thousands of miles away in Scotland.
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  • Grace Bastidas is an editor, podcast host and multicultural market expert. Her work as a content creator focuses on giving voice to communities of color. As the founding editor and content director of Parents Latina, Bastidas is in charge of guiding the creative vision and mission of a bilingual brand that reaches 3.4 million multicultural moms and dads. She is also the host of That New Mom Life, a podcast from Parents magazine that helps mothers navigate those first few months of parenthood. In each episode, she interviews top experts in the postpartum world to get their best advice about everything from body changes to coping with sleepless nights. She covered parenting for NPR's Life Kit.
  • Teran Powell joined WUWM in the fall of 2017 as the station’s very first Eric Von Fellow.
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