Robyn Vincent
Executive Newsroom Producer, Editor, ReporterEmail: robyn.vincent@kunc.org
I wear many hats in KUNC's newsroom as an executive producer, editor and reporter. My work focuses on inequality, the systems of power that entrench it, and the people who are disproportionately affected. I help reporters in my newsroom to also uncover these angles and elevate unheard voices in the process.
I have worked as a reporter and editor mining stories at the intersection of the New and Old West for more than a decade. Before joining KUNC, I built and launched the first news department at Jackson Hole Community Radio.
I also am the former editor of Wyoming’s only alternative press: the now-defunct Planet Jackson Hole. I led that paper to win its first national award for a series I directed on the narratives of forcibly displaced people. It traced one reporter’s tumultuous experience living and working with Syrian refugees on the Greek island of Lesvos. That work—published in the only state that lacks a refugee resettlement program—typifies my favorite kind of journalism: that which dispels notions of “the other.”
I hold a bachelor’s degree in print and online journalism from Wayne State University in Detroit and belong to Investigative Reporters and Editors, Ida B. Wells Society, and the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association.
When I'm not sweating deadlines, I like to get lost in the mountains, near and far, and wax philosophical with strangers.
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A divide among American Jews is deepening as Israel escalates its military campaign in Gaza. This chasm was pronounced during the Global Conference for Israel in Denver last week. In The NoCo was there to learn more.
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Reporting on underrepresented communities requires care and nuance. The journalists who come from those communities often cover them with that requisite perspective. Latina journalist Lori Lizarraga of NPR's Code Switch discusses this and more on today’s episode of In the NoCo.
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KUNC’s The Colorado Dream podcast captures the struggles and successes of residents determined to make a life in Colorado. Ahead of the third season's debut, which unpacks how Colorado’s housing crisis is affecting mountain communities, we explore how these stories reflect the resilience of Coloradans.
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All eyes are on an Aurora courtroom for the Elijah McClain case that went on trial last week. Mclain, a 23-year-old Black man, died four years ago during a violent encounter with Aurora police and paramedics. His death has had major reverberations in Colorado and far beyond.
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The housing crisis is touching Coloradans in multiple ways. In recent surveys, residents pointed to some of its underpinnings — affordable housing and homelessness — as their biggest concerns. In today's episode, Zach Neumann, an eviction attorney and co-founder of the Community Economic Defense Project, discusses what is working and what needs to change to keep more Coloradans housed.
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Rep. Yadira Caraveo is Colorado’s first Latina member of Congress, representing the newly drawn 8th Congressional District. The pediatrician and daughter of Mexican immigrants discusses how her upbringing and life experiences have informed her work as a physician — and now as a member of Congress.
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Thousands attended the MAPS Psychedelic Science Conference in Denver back in June. The massive turnout and the growing promise of psychedelic therapy grabbed plenty of national headlines. But most of that media coverage missed an Indigenous-led protest during the closing remarks. Boulder counselor Kuthoomi Castro, one of the protesters, explains why they spoke out.
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Poudre School District has kept police in schools despite efforts from community members in recent years to remove them. How is that decision shaking out following threats and gun violence in other Colorado schools?
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Sheriffs are some of Colorado’s most powerful local elected leaders. They are tasked with enforcing a multitude of laws, running jails and carrying out evictions. But how closely they follow the law sometimes hinges on other factors — like their own politics or those of the community they serve.
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Residents with disabilities who live at an apartment complex in Greeley are on edge. They may soon have to move out, but "there's nowhere to go."