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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Debating the protests with grandma, a former Black Panther
Lifelong activist Phyllis Noble-Mobley joined the recent marches for racial justice, yet questions the strategy to defund police.
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Education
How to break the ice with boys and girls on the 'birds and bees'
Peggy Orenstein helps us have ‘the sex talk(s)’
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Health
How’s our country's health care? Not the worst, or the best
Ezekiel Emanuel explains why, and what needs to change
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Arts & Life
Lyric World presents poetry of loss and collective grief
‘Elegies ceased being / elegant.’
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Race & Identity
‘Definitely is the same fight:' Two Garfield High grads talk two eras of civil rights protests
This conversation is part of our Beyond the Protest series, led by people involved in the struggle for social justice, from different generations and viewpoints, from protesters to police.
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Race & Identity
Race and justice in journalism, with Nikole Hannah-Jones
The 1619 Project is a New York Times undertaking led by reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones. It was launched in 2019, on the 400th anniversary of the arrival of enslaved Black people in America.
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Race & Identity
Ijeoma Oluo on Seattle: ‘We are NOT a liberal city’
More than talk, Ijeoma Oluo wants action and what is owed to people of color
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A journalist and his son on running from tear gas, and why the protests are personal
Home from college this summer, Omari Salisbury never thought he’d get pepper sprayed by police. He never thought he’d see a cop car set on fire right next to him.
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Speakers Forum: Jayapal and the politics of empathy and advocacy
Use the Power You Have: A Brown Woman’s Guide to Politics and Political Change
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Science
‘A crisis of welcome.’ Sonia Shah on The Next Great Migration
‘Migration is not a catastrophe… it’s actually the solution.’