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Mareva Lindo

Mareva joined The Public’s Radio in 2022 and oversees daily news production, writes our Daily Catch newsletter and edits two weekly productions, Artscape and The Weekly Catch.

In 2023, Mareva received two awards from the Public Media Journalists Association for her work with The Public's Radio, including a first-place Multi-Media Presentation award for the 2022 Elections page, and a second-place Short Documentary award for editing and co-production of “The Secret of Chiqui Versace."

A Chicago-made journalist and musician, Mareva strives to document and tell stories driven by community, curiosity, and listening. She is the creator of The Archives podcast at the Old Town School of Folk Music, where in 2017 she conducted an oral history of the school in partnership with StoryCorps. In the past Mareva has reported on public meetings as a City Bureau Documenter, led workshops on podcasting and audio storytelling, and crafted ethnography-based theater as a company member of the Albany Park Theater Project.

She holds a B.A. from Smith College in American Studies with a focus in popular culture. When not at The Public's Radio, she's been known to sing sea shanties and play the fiddle.

mlindo@ripr.org
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June 2, 2023: Housing vouchers, local longshoremen’s protest, and ‘Sweeney Todd’ at Trinity

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Housing and homelessness has become a political tennis ball in the capital. But local nonprofit Amos House isn’t waiting for lawmakers to find a solution. Also: work on the Vineyard Wind offshore wind farm will resume after coming to an agreement with the New Bedford longshoremen’s union that protested the project for six days. And: “Sweeney Todd” is the latest production at Trinity Rep. We go in depth on these stories and more in this edition of The Weekly Catch.

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Our Democracy

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On January 20, Joe Biden will be inaugurated our nation’s 46th President. But the storming of the Capitol in Washington DC this week only too clearly underscored the ongoing divisions in this country and raised deeper questions about the fragility of our American democracy. We turn here to the leaders and voters of Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts for their thoughts on those questions. These are their stories.

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