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 Steve Curwood
Host / Executive Producer
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Steve Curwood is Executive Producer and Host of Living on Earth. Steve created the first pilot of Living on Earth in the Spring of 1990, and the show has run continuously since April, 1991. Today, Living on Earth with Steve Curwood is aired on more than 270 public radio stations in the USA. Steve's relationship with public radio goes back to 1979 when he began as a reporter and host of Weekend All Things Considered. He also hosted NPR's World of Opera.
Steve has been a journalist for more than 30 years with experience at NPR, CBS News, the Boston Globe, WBUR-FM/Boston and WGBH-TV/Boston. He shared the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service as part of the Boston Globe's education team. Steve Curwood is also the recipient of the 2003 Global Green Award for Media Design, the 2003 David A. Brower Award from the Sierra Club for excellence in environmental reporting and the 1992 New England Environmental Leadership Award from Tufts University for his work on promoting environmental awareness. He is president of the World Media Foundation, Inc. and lectures in Environmental Science and Public Policy at Harvard University. He lives in Southern New Hampshire on a small woodlot with his wife and family.
Ashley Ahearn
Associate Producer
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Ashley Ahearn joins us as Associate Producer from NPR in Washington, where she interned after graduating from Georgetown University. She has studied and lived in Japan, France and Scotland. Her radio experience includes assistant producing at PRI's The World, and interning at WBUR in Boston and Transitions Online in the Czech Republic. She got her start in radio by logging tape and doing research for Sandy Tolan of Homelands Productions when she was 15. In her spare time Ashley likes to be outside, especially backpacking and camping. She says backpacks produce perfectly-smooshed PB and J sandwiches.
Bobby Bascomb
Associate Producer
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Eileen Bolinsky
Senior Editor
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Eileen Bolinsky is the Senior Editor at Living on Earth. She came to LOE in 1997 as the technical director with over 15 years of public radio experience, including positions at Monitor Radio and WBUR. She has taught classes on radio production techniques at the New England School of Photography, Boston Women's Community Radio, and the Mid-Cambridge Media Project. Among her numerous honors are a 1985 Peabody Award, as Associate Producer and Engineer, for the Holocaust Series "Liberation Remembered", a 1995 New York Festivals Silver Medal for her work on "Brody Buster, Harmonica Player: A Sound Portrait," and a 1999 New York Festivals Finalist Award as co-producer for "An Afternoon with Pete Seeger." In her spare time, she loves to travel around the world.
Bruce Gellerman
Producer
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Bruce is the winner of more than 40 national awards for environmental, financial, investigative, scientific and social affairs reporting. These include the Sigma Delta Chi-Bronze Medallion, the Ohio State Award, the AAAS-Westinghouse Award, and the Unity Award. His work has been published in the New York Times, The Scientist, and the Boston Globe and he’s the author of the book "Massachusetts Curiosities."
Bruce has traveled far and wide to teach journalism. In the past few years he’s been to Montenegro, Serbia, Macedonia, Kazakstan, Armenia, Albania, Sierre Leone, and Uganda. He recently was selected as a Fulbright Senior Specialist and recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship. He lives with his wife Yulia, and children, Anna and Andre, in Watertown, MA.
Ingrid Lobet
Western Bureau Chief
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Ingrid Lobet edits and reports stories from the changing West. Pitch her stories of the unexpected, the unvisited and the under-reported. From her base in Los Angeles she watches trends in among others, energy policy, air pollution, public lands, and water. She came to Living On Earth from Latino USA, where she edited stories and reported on agriculture, farm worker health and Latino demographics. She's reported from Kenya, Honduras, Mexico, Ecuador and Peru. In 2000 she won an Investigative Reporters and Editors award for coverage of oil. She later won an RTNDA Edward R. Murrow and Scripps Howard investigative awards for coverage of a warehouse poisoning. She's written for US News & World Report and Latin Trade and before that was a business reporter and bureau chief at KPLU in Seattle. For fun, she likes rough-housing with Gabriel, her eight-year old.
Helen Palmer
Managing Producer
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Emily Taylor
Associate Producer
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Emily joins Living on Earth as an Associate Producer after completing an internship at the program in the Spring of 2006. After graduating from Brown University in 2004 with a BA in Biomedical Ethics, she spent the year traveling throughout Europe and settled in Colorado where she interned for a small, weekly newspaper. For the past five summers she has directed the sailing program at the Chatham Yacht Club in Chatham, Massachusetts. Her free time is spent sailing, skiing, traveling and playing ice hockey.
Jeff Turton
Technical Director
617-629-3649
Jeff Young
Washington Correspondent
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Jeff reports from Capitol Hill letting LOE listeners know how Congress, the courts and White House affect their environment, from climate change and clean air to endangered species protection and energy politics. Jeff’s reporting also takes him beyond the beltway to Appalachia’s coal fields and Florida’s Everglades to learn how decisions made in Washington play out.
Jeff is a native of West Virginia and worked for West Virginia Public Broadcasting for a decade before joining LOE. His reporting there twice won the regional Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio and Television News Directors Assoc. Jeff studied journalism and biology at Marshall University and the University of Charleston. He taught broadcast journalism as an adjunct professor at West Virginia University. He and his wife, artist and teacher Helen Payne, live in Washington but sneak back to West Virginia to hike, bike, boat and ski whenever they can.
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