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Catrin Einhorn is a freelance producer and reporter in the
news department at Chicago Public Radio. Her work has appeared
on The World, Marketplace, and NPR News. Before
finding public radio, she interned for Catalyst, a
magazine that examines school reform in Chicago.
She lived in Chile from 1999 to 2001, studying national identity
and globalization on a Fulbright fellowship, then teaching
English. She graduated from Haverford College in 1999, where
she majored in social anthropology and concentrated in Latin
American and Iberian studies.
Regarding the Ear to the Ground Mentorship Program, Catrin
says, “I feel privileged to partipate in Chicago
Matters' Ear to the Ground Mentorship because it lets
me help Chicago Public Radio live up to its name. Public radio
has a responsibility to reflect what's going on in its community,
but that's difficult in a big city like Chicago. We struggle
to cover as many stories as possible, but we miss so many
important ones.
“By giving mini disks and microphones to a diverse
group of young people from across the city, the Ear to the
Ground Mentorship program lets Chicagoans tell the stories
that are important to them. Everyone benefits. The station
presents new stories from a different perspective; the mentees
receive training they can use in future jobs, community organizing,
teaching, oral history projects, etc.; and I get the chance
to think through challenging questions about why I do the
things I do, to discover new ways of doing them, and to meet
a fascinating group of people in the process.”
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