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Ann Marie Baldonado is an interview contributor and long-time producer at Fresh Air with Terry Gross. She is currently Fresh Air's Director of Talent Development. She got her start in radio in 1997 as a production assistant at WHYY and joined Fresh Air in 1998. For over 20 years, she has focused on the show's TV and film interviews. She became a contributing interviewer in 2015, talking with comedians, actors, directors and musicians like Ali Wong, Kumail Nanjiani, John Cho and Jeff Tweedy. In 2020, Baldonado hosted the limited-run podcast Parent Trapped, about the struggles of parenting during the pandemic. She talked to Julie Andrews about encouraging creativity in your kids, and comedian W. Kamau Bell about what to watch with them.

Renee Montagne, one of the best-known names in public radio, was reporter, host, and correspondent for NPR for over 40 years.

Samantha Balaban is a Senior Producer at Weekend Edition. Most days, you can find her under a pile of books and mail coordinating the show’s book coverage. She's also responsible for Picture This, a series of conversations with authors and illustrators.

Ohio’s largest online charter school has promised to continue its legal battle with the state department of education. But the state school board still…

Prison is a big business. Lots of money goes in, and lots of money goes out. And a good portion of the money going in, is from inmates' families, in the…

While some kids go to summer camp, others opt for a virtual camp. It uses the Minecraft video game to teach engineering skills, basic coding and how to be a good citizen in the digital landscape.

Bird flu that spread to several Midwest states this year killed more than 50 million turkeys and chickens. Fortunately for Ohio turkey farmers, the flu…

A spike in coronavirus cases is straining the health care system in South Carolina's rural areas. From small hospitals to churches, the region is struggling to survive.

Firefighters remain under pressure as more than a dozen fires burn across California. The largest is the Mendocino Complex Fire, which has more than 4,000 firefighters working to contain it.

The second-oldest colonial city in South Africa, Port Elizabeth, has a new name. It mixes some of the unique linguistics of the Xhosa language, yet many South Africans are struggling to pronounce it.