Karen Anderson
Director of Radio ProgrammingKaren is Vermont Public's Director of Radio Programming, serving Vermonters by overseeing the sound of Vermont Public's radio broadcast service. Karen has a long history with public radio, beginning in the early 2000's with the launch of the weekly classical music program, Sunday Bach. Karen's undergraduate degree is in Broadcast Journalism, and she has worked for public radio in Vermont and St. Louis, MO, in areas of production, programming, traffic, operations and news. She has produced many projects for broadcast over the years, including the Vermont Public Choral Hour, with host Linda Radtke, and interviews with local newsmakers with Morning Edition host Mitch Wertlieb. In 2021 Karen worked with co-producer Betty Smith on a national collaboration with StoryCorps One Small Step, connecting Vermonters one conversation at a time.
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After a year of war, Vermont Public checked back in with Roman Kokodyniak, a Cabot resident who has family and friends in Ukraine. He’s a post-WWII immigrant to the U.S., arriving here in 1950 as a young boy.
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A South Burlington High School teacher is using her experience from two years spent working with students in Ukraine to educate Vermont students about the war following Russia’s invasion.
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Independent Filmmaker Nora Jacobson had never heard of Vermont poet laureate Ruth Stone until she was asked to interview her prior to the poet’s death in 2011. Once she did she was enthralled, and decided to make a documentary about the poet’s life and legacy. That film – Ruth Stone’s Vast Library of the Female Mind – makes its television premiere as part of the Made Here series, and Vermont Public’s Mitch Wertlieb spoke with Jacobson about the documentary.
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Lawmakers this session are taking a serious look at a bill that would legalize sports betting in Vermont. Why are they doing this, and what would the system look like?
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John Killacky has worn many creative hats during his time in Vermont, as executive director of the Flynn, a disability rights activist, and most recently as a member of Vermont’s House of Representatives. Now he’s exhibiting three new intermedia videos at Junction Arts & Media in White River Junction, and we learn what inspired the new pieces.
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Last week, Sen. Bernie Sanders was named the new chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. It’s a position tied closely to many of the issues that Sanders has spent his career working on. Vermont Public’s senior political correspondent Bob Kinzel had a chance to talk with the senator about his priorities for the new session.
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Despite the efforts of Vermont scholastic officials to prevent it, allegations of racist behavior connected to high school sports continue to emerge. Vermont Public's Mitch Wertlieb spoke with the head of the Vermont Principal’s Association Jay Nichols about what steps have been taken, and what more needs to be done.
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A new president and CEO takes over the helm of Vermont’s largest health network at a time of rising costs and operating deficits.
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Burke Mountain Ski Academy graduate Mikaela Shiffrin’s continuing quest for Alpine World Cup historyBurke Mountain Academy's Mikaela Shiffrin has tied Lindsey Vonn’s record for most alpine World Cup Wins. The 27-year-old took home the title Sunday during the giant slalom event in Slovenia. It was her 82nd career World Cup win. Shiffrin attempted to break that record in Austria this week, but fell short.
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The world’s largest multi-sport winter college athletic event takes place this week at the Olympic Center in Lake Placid, New York, and a student at Middlebury College will be among the competitors in figure skating.