Ariel Lavery
Producer, In The NoCoAriel Lavery grew up in Louisville, Colorado and has returned to the Front Range after spending over 25 years moving around the country. Ariel graduated Magna Cum Laude with her BFA from the University of Colorado Boulder (2007) and received her MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (2013).
She served as the Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Watkins College of Art Design and Film in Nashville until 2018. She left her teaching job to begin her family and quickly found her way into the podcast world. With a grant from PRX, she co-created the podcast Middle of Everywhere for WKMS, Murray State University’s NPR member station.
Ariel won Public Media Journalism awards in every season she produced for Middle of Everywhere. Her most recent series project is "The Burn Scar", published with The Modern West podcast. In it, she chronicles two years of her family’s financial and emotional struggle following the loss of her childhood home in the Marshall Fire.
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April is National Poetry Month – and to celebrate, we're talking with the owner of Wolverine Farm in Fort Collins, who left his 'day job' more than 20 years ago to devote his life to bringing a love of literature and poetry to Northern Colorado. -
Taking action against climate change can be difficult or impossible if despair is weighing you down. This is why environmental advocates say “climate hope” is so important. We hear more from Charlotte Lin, sustainability coordinator for the town of Avon, on today's In The NoCo. -
Young Coloradans are taking action to shape a more hopeful future in the face of the climate crisis. Today on In the NoCo we talk with two Boulder Valley high school students who campaigned for the school district to adopt a climate resolution – successfully. -
We’re still learning how to live with the effects of a changing climate. In his new book, Colorado journalist Stephen Robert Miller investigates our need to adapt to climate change – and why some of those attempts can backfire. -
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Colorado may rank at the top with regard to physical fitness. But when it comes to mental health, Coloradans are struggling. On today’s In The NoCo we discuss how a culture of drug and alcohol use in mountain resort communities can negatively affect the mental health of those who live and work there. -
Greeley farmer Sean Short has created a sustainable chicken farm with a mixture of fish farming and hydroponics. And he’s bringing at-risk young people into the fold to learn how. On today’s In the NoCo we listen back to a conversation about aquaponic chicken farming. -
Reporting on underrepresented communities requires care and nuance. Journalists who come from those communities are often best suited to cover them – but sometimes that comes with a cost. Today on In The NoCo, we listen back to our conversation with Lori Lizarraga, co-host of NPR's Code Switch. -
Wildfire risk continues to impact tens of thousands of people in Northern Colorado. On today's episode of In the NoCo, we hear from a wildfire economist with Colorado State University about the risks homeowners face – and what people can do to protect their property. -
NPR has a long and winding history, beginning in the early 20th century with scattered rural stations that featured 'educational' programming like cooking lessons or music performances. CU Boulder professor Josh Shepperd has a new book out, which chronicles NPR's early years. Today on In The NoCo he discusses the book, and how Western states like Colorado helped create the NPR name. -
Parts of the Midwest and northeast will be seeing large crowds this weekend in preparation for Monday's total solar eclipse. On In the NoCo, we hear from a historian who wrote about an event in 1878 that forever changed the face of eclipse tourism - right here in Colorado.
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