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CHICAGO MATTERS: Inside Housing
Independent producers
who contribute to Chicago Matters
Annie
Baxter
Annie Baxter is a special projects producer at Chicago Public Radio and
an occasional contributor to the program Eight Forty-Eight. She
was formerly a production trainee for This American Life.
Dan
Collison
Dan Collison has worked in public radio for over 20 years and has produced
many documentaries including Execution Day: Huntsville, Texas and
the On the Bus series. He regularly contributes to This American
Life and NPR's All Things Considered. His This American
Life documentary Scenes from a Transplant received a prestigious
duPont-Columbia Award. Dan has also been recognized with a Robert F. Kennedy
Journalism Award and an Edward R. Murrow Award.
Dan's television
documentary Starting Over, which follows a former death row inmate's
reintroduction to the free world after 38 years in prison, was broadcast
on Nightline. He has also been a contributing producer for the
PBS program Religion and Ethics News Weekly.
Other Chicago
Matters documentaries produced by Dan include Life on the Outside
(audio)
and A Danger to Themselves or Others (audio).
Andrea
De Fotis
Andrea De Fotis is an independent radio producer based in Chicago whose
work has been heard on NPR, the CBS Radio Network, and Chicago Public
Radio.
She was the producer
of Transformation:
The History and Future of Public Housing in Chicago, a three-part
radio documentary that aired on Chicago Public Radio in October 2001.
Currently, she is recording the oral histories of the 40 families remaining
in a dilapidated eight-story building in the Robert Taylor Homes, which
is scheduled for demolition in the fall of 2002.
Hillary
Frank
Hillary Frank is a freelance writer and radio producer. Her work has
aired on This American Life, Marketplace, Morning Edition,
and Studio 360. She is also the author of the forthcoming young
adult novel Better Than Running at Night. Last year for Chicago
Matters, Hillary contributed a two-part feature exploring home schooling
(audio of part
one and part
two).
Lex
Gillespie
Lex Gillespie is a freelance producer based in Washington, D.C. whose
past credits on Chicago Matters include a profile of a South Side
charter school (audio)
and a history of the founding of the juvenile court in Chicago (audio).
In 2001, he wrote
and produced a series on rhythm and blues music, Let the Good Times
Roll, which was broadcast on Chicago Public Radio and distributed
by Public Radio International.
Alex
Kotlowitz
Alex Kotlowitz has contributed to the New Yorker, the New
York Times Magazine, and Chicago Public Radio's This American Life.
His articles have also appeared in the Washington Post, the
Chicago Tribune, Rolling Stone, and the New Republic.
Alex, who has been
a distinguished visitor at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation,
was a staff writer at the Wall Street Journal from 1984 to 1993,
writing on urban affairs and social policy. Prior to joining the Journal,
he freelanced for five years, contributing to the MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour,
All Things Considered, and Morning Edition, as well as various
magazines. His journalism honors include the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism
Award and the George Polk Award. He is the recipient of two honorary degrees
and the John LaFarge Memorial Award for Interracial Justice given by New
York's Catholic Interracial Council.
Alex's most recent
book is The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death,
and America's Dilemma . He also is the author of the best-selling
book There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in
the Other America. This book was the recipient of numerous awards
including the Helen B. Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism, the
Carl Sandburg Award and a Christopher Award. The New York Public Library
selected There Are No Children Here as one of the 150 most important
books of the century.
Judith
McCray
Judith McCray is an Emmy Award winning writer, director, and producer
whose recent public television documentaries include Nubia and the
Mysteries of Kush (2001), and Amazon Rising: Seasons of the River
(2000).
She has also produced
for Common Ground, a public radio series on world affairs. Her
work for that program includes the award-winning documentary Lost in
their Native Lands, which addressed human rights issues affecting
the world's indigenous communities.
Elizabeth
Meister
Elizabeth Meister is the creator and producer of the influential This
American Life website. The site, which she began as a volunteer four
years ago, was recently recognized by Brill's Content magazine
as one of the best sites on the Internet. She's also the producer of the
site for the Third Coast International Audio Festival site, a Sundance-style
audio festival produced by Chicago Public Radio.
When not working
on these websites, Elizabeth is a freelance radio producer whose stories
been heard on This American Life, the Savvy Traveller and
NPR's Anthem. In addition, she is a contributing writer for the
Roadtrip USA travel guides.
Joan
Schuman
Joan Schuman is a sound-text composer whose work has, since 1993, appeared
on the air, online, in festivals, and in performance spaces throughout
the U.S., Europe, and Australia. Filtered through her work are dissections
of interviews, stories, found sound, and newly created personas.
Schuman has also
been creating documentaries for public radio since 1986. Overlapping themes
for both her art and radio work include gender ambiguities, violence,
language, technology, silence, and the nomad. She helped launch Outright
Radio, the radio series that tells the stories of America's gays and
lesbians, and is occasionally heard on Weekend Edition and The
Next Big Thing. She has been involved in community broadcasting and
now works independently.
Joan's documentary
about urban nomads is her first contribution to Chicago Matters.
Tracy
Ullman
Tracy Ullman has significant documentary experience through her work with
Scottish Television, the BBC, and PBS. She has also developed and produced
numerous TV series and documentaries, including The Rush, a documentary
about the Greek system at the University of Iowa. Currently, she is an
Emmy nominated producer-writer-director for her documentary on the Chicago
stockyards that aired on WTTW11.
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