John O'Brien
Senior Producer, All Things Considered
About
John O’Brien is KUOW's All Things Considered Senior Producer. He spends his days setting up interviews with newsmakers on subjects from politics and public health to arts and culture. John learned to make radio starting in 2006 as an intern on KUOW’s The Conversation with Ross Reynolds.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English
Pronouns: he/him
Stories
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Arts & Life
She returned to the NW when the Taliban took power. Now she's back in Afghanistan — by choice
‘Taliban are who are here. We need to support the Afghan process of re-establishing the government. I'm an American. One day, the Taliban were my enemy. In the next week, they were my neighbors, and I had to work with them.’
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Arts & Life
From prison chain gang to art world notoriety, the life and work of Winfred Rembert
‘We had been married over five years before he decided that he would even mention to me what had happened. I just knew he was having trouble sleeping. And this is the kind of torture that followed him until he died.’
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Arts & Life
Defining disability justice and celebrating ‘crip-centric liberated zones’
‘Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid’
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Arts & Life
Paul Auster celebrates the precocious, abbreviated life and work of Stephen Crane
'Crane is now in the hands of the specialists, while the invisible army of so-called general readers, the same people who still take pleasure in reading old standbys such as Melville and Whitman, are no longer reading Crane.’
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Environment
What are we willing to do to protect Southern Resident orcas?
What it will take to share this region with Qw'e lh'ol mechen, ‘the people that live under the sea’
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Arts & Life
Trans history and one man’s struggle to correct ‘a ghastly mistake’
‘Dr E. Forbes-Sempill henceforth wishes to be known as Dr Ewan Forbes-Sempill’
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Anita Hill on her mission to end gender violence and harassment
‘We know it’s a cultural problem. We know it’s a behavioral problem. But it’s not a problem of a few bad apples.’ – Professor Anita Hill
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Arts & Life
Check out these ho, ho, holiday streaming picks from McTelevision
‘Hallmark has a powerful formula. It's one that other channels have tapped into, particularly by responding to the fact that Hallmark has for a very long time not been inclusive.’
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Arts & Life
Gather ‘round for a roguish, timeless Christmas tale
A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas
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Race & Identity
Claudia Rankine on the unbearable lightness of whiteness in America
‘The indifference is impenetrable and reliable and distributed across centuries, and I am stupidly hurt when my friends can’t see that.’