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Production Staff
Smith is the winner of broadcast journalism's most prestigious honor, the 1999-2000 duPont-Columbia University Gold Baton, as well as many other national journalism awards. Smith was a 1992-93 William Benton Fellow at the University of Chicago, where he earned a Master's degree in the Humanities. Smith is a graduate of Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., where he majored in English Literature.
Mary Beth Kirchner is an independent radio producer and national programming consultant in Los Angeles. With an extensive track record in public broadcasting, she has been honored with multiple national and international awards including a 1997 duPont Columbia Award and three Gold Medals from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for her documentaries and music series. Ms. Kirchner started her own production company in 1993 after having served as National Programming Director for radio at WETA, Washington, DC. Prior to that, she was Executive Producer for radio at the Smithsonian Institution's Office of Telecommunications. Kirchner is currently the Executive Producer of American Routes, a weekly two-hour contemporary music series based in New Orleans. She has also collaborated with the legendary radio dramatist Norman Corwin for the last decade, and in recent years has produced more than half-a-dozen Friday night specials for ABC News Nightline with correspondent Robert Krulwich.
From 1989 to 1995, Montgomery was a Balkans correspondent for the London Daily Telegraph, covering the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the break up of Yugoslavia. He reported extensively on the wars in Croatia and Bosnia, including the siege of Sarajevo. Montgomery also covered the region as a freelance reporter for Time Magazine and the Los Angeles Times. Montgomery was a Fulbright scholar in Belgrade from 1987 to 1989, researching Serbian nationalism. He graduated from Macalester College with a degree in International Studies. Montgomery is the recipient of an Alfred E. Dupont-Columbia Gold Baton and Overseas Press Club Award.
Producer Emily Hanford joined American RadioWorks in January 2008 to cover education. Before coming to ARW, Hanford worked with North Carolina Public Radio-WUNC for 8 years, first as news director and then as a senior editor/ producer overseeing the series North Carolina Voices. Hanford created the Voices series as a way to transcend daily news coverage and look deeply at complex issues. The series has taken on topics such as aging, unemployment, poverty, high school reform and access to higher education. The 2005 series Understanding Poverty received a duPont-Columbia Award, and a reporting project for the series on high school reform went on to become the American RadioWorks documentary Put to the Test. Hanford got her start in radio straight out of college as an intern and then independent producer for WFCR in Amherst, Massachusetts. She moved from there to Chicago where she worked at Chicago Public Radio-WBEZ as a producer for the series Chicago Matters, and then as a newsroom reporter, program host and acting news director. Hanford now works from her home in Takoma Park, MD, just outside of Washington, DC. She has a degree in English and American Studies from Amherst College. Producer Laurie Stern has been producing news and documentaries for broadcast since the mid-1980s. She's freelanced for ABC, NBC and CBS News, and been a staff producer for television affiliates in the Twin Cities, as well as for Twin Cities Public Television. Most recently she worked at Hard Working Pictures, where she managed international reporting projects and co-directed the feature length documentary, Wellstone! Her storytelling has earned her two prestigious journalism fellowships and numerous awards. She has taught journalism at the University of Minnesota, and earned her Master’s Degree there. Stern has also driven a city bus and worked in a steel mill. The poverty project draws directly on the significant reporting and storytelling skills Stern has been honing for decades. Web Producer Ochen Kaylan comes to American RadioWorks with extensive graphic design experience, including serving as the Manager of Digital Design at the Walker Art Center and Senior Designer at Larsen Design. He has taught at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and worked as a Conflict Mediator for the Minnesota State Fair. Kaylan has received numerous design and advertising awards including: a Gold Pencil from The One Club; AIGA Minnesota Design Show selection; The Standard of Excellence Award from the Webawards; a Merit from HOW Interactive, a Unity Award for Reporting of Public Affairs/Social Issues, and a Special Citation from the Investigative Reporters and Editors Awards. His artwork has been shown at the San Francisco Art Institute, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Austin Museum of Art, Walker Art Center, and the Minnesota Museum of American Art. Kaylan's radio work has been heard on American Public Media's Marketplace, Weekend America, and American RadioWorks, on regional stations throughout the Northeast and Midwest, and on Transom.org. He is also the composer of the American RadioWorks theme.
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Executive Editor - Correspondent Stephen Smith reports on wide range of international and domestic issues, including international human rights, science and health, race relations and American history. Documentary projects for All Things Considered and other programs have taken Smith to Asia, Europe, the Balkans, South Africa, Latin America and other destinations. He also reports on diverse social and cultural issues across the United States.
Editor/Producer Catherine Winter began working for Minnesota Public Radio in 1987 as legal affairs correspondent. She later produced features on rural issues for MPR's Mainstreet Radio team. She is the recipient of numerous national awards for her work, including two Silver Gavel awards from the American Bar Association and the Unity Award for reporting on issues affecting minorities and disabled persons. She taught writing and journalism at the University of Minnesota Duluth from 1999-2004. Winter holds a master's degree in English and linguistics from UMD and a master's degree in journalism from the University of California at Berkeley.
Chris Farrell is Economics Editor for American Public Media's Marketplace Money and Marketplace Morning Report. Farrell is also a contributing economics editor at Business Week magazine, where he was previously economics editor and, before that, corporate finance editor. Farrell was host of public television's Right On The Money and prior to that, finance editor at Business Times on ESPN and was heard on Business Times Radio. He holds degrees from the London School of Economics and Stanford University.
Correspondent Michael Montgomery has worked in national radio, television, and newspapers. He joined American RadioWorks as a correspondent in July, 1999. Prior to that, Montgomery was an associate producer at CBS Reports and 60 Minutes, where he covered national and international stories, including an extensive investigation into Mexican drug trafficking.
Kate Ellis comes to American RadioWorks with extensive expertise in American race relations. She began working with American RadioWorks in 2001, when her research on white and African American memories of segregation was featured in the program Remembering Jim Crow. She is the recipient of the ABA's Silver Gavel Award, the Unity Award for public affairs/social issues reporting, and the first place Headliner Award for documentary work. Ellis entered public radio as a college DJ in Santa Cruz, CA. She holds a B.A. from UC, Santa Cruz and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Columbia University.
Producer/Reporter Sasha Aslanian joined American RadioWorks in 2000 after spending eight years producing daily news programs for Minnesota Public Radio. At American RadioWorks, she has served as Coordinating Producer and Senior Producer, reporting on mental illness, adoption, bankruptcy, and environmental contamination. She has won a Heywood Broun Award for her environmental reporting and two Gracies. Her essays have appeared in The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Modern Bride and National Public Radio. She is a graduate of Grinnell College.
Coordinating Producer Ellen Guettler has been with American RadioWorks since 2003. Prior to that she worked at National Public Radio and the Online NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Guettler has a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Studies and Geography from Middlebury College.
Contributing Photographer Steve Schapiro worked extensively for Life, Look, Time, and Newsweek in the 1960s, covering that turbulent decade and shooting stories on the social and cultural climate of America. Shapiro's photos have appeared on the covers of many of the world's leading magazines. Schapiro's new book, American Edge, documents the spirit of the 1960s. Schapiro is a graduate of Amherst and Bard Colleges.