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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Race & Identity
Using data to fight inequities in policing
Status quo-breaking research maps police violence
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Politics
Susan Rice: ‘We can’t take five and a half (more) years of this’
The former National Security Advisor discusses life, leadership, diplomacy and Trump
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Science
What we know about human consciousness
Allen Institute Chief Scientist leads efforts to understand consciousness
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Education
Hillary and Chelsea Clinton share stories of ‘Gutsy Women’
Girls kept asking who their heroes were, so they wrote a book
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Business
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow on ‘the fight of our lifetimes'
She discusses her new best-selling expose ‘Blowout’
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Education
Parent as if your kid’s adulthood depends on it
It does. Julie Lythcott-Haims shares insights into successful adult-rearing
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Race & Identity
Think Black: A son reflects on his father’s role in the computer revolution
The underpinnings and footholds of corporate racism at the dawn of the digital age
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Environment
Climate change is real. What role do you play?
'Our actions and the problems they create are connected, all around the world.'
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Arts & Life
A farm. A barn. A sylvan symposium for our times
Smoke Farm 2019 continues a conversational tradition
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Arts & Life
Rock star poet sings ‘The Tiny Journalist’ blues
Naomi Shihab Nye from Neve Shalom/Wāħat as-Salām to Al-ki, Bye and Bye