Kathryn Fink is a producer with NPR's All Things Considered.
Viet Le
Viet Le (he/him) is a senior producer at The Indicator from Planet Money, NPR's daily economics podcast. Before that, he edited and helped launch NPR's daily science podcast, Short Wave. His career at NPR started at All Things Considered in 2008, first as a booker and then producer. He also spent a couple of years helping to get NPR One off the ground, and worked as an editor on Weekend Edition. But no matter what his professional accomplishments at the network, he will perhaps be most remembered in the newsroom for convincing a Virginia farmer to put lipstick on one of his pigs for an ATC segment.
Padma Viswanathan, who teaches in the UofA MFA in Creative Writing and Translation, discusses her shortlisted translation of Ana Paula Maia's Brazilian novella "On Earth As It Is Beneath."
Michael Tilley of Talk Business & Politics breaks down Fort Smith's rising sales tax revenue, a crowded November ballot and the city's long-deferred water infrastructure crisis.
Tommy Doss is one of two street sweeper operators for the city of Fayetteville. He runs a TYMCO Model 600 regenerative air sweeper four days a week, and his supervisors say he's pretty good at his job.