Chris Hickey was born and raised in Houston, Texas, spending his teenage years in Camden, Ohio. He graduated from Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, majoring in English. He got his start in public radio working as a board operator at WMUB in Oxford, Ohio during his summer and winter breaks from school. Since graduating, he has made Little Rock home. He joined KUAR in September 2011 as a production intern and has since enjoyed producing, anchoring and reporting for the station. He is the composer of KUAR's Week-In-Review Podcast theme music and the associate producer of Arts & Letters.
Jennifer Waymack Standerfer of Arkansas Appleseed discusses her report on civic engagement, local reporting, party control of elections, and what democracy can look like in Arkansas.
UofA professors Jamie Baum and Erin Howie Hickey discuss how self-determination theory, screen time and outdoor play shape kids' health over summer break.
Historian Jared Phillips joins Ozarks at Large to trace the history of beef cattle in the Ozarks, from open-range grazing before the Civil War to today's cattle market.