How Farmers Markets are surviving - and evolving - during the pandemic

First episode in the series on solutions to food insecurity during COVID-19 pandemic. Narrated by Mark McLemore, who also supervised my audio editing. I did all interviews, photography, wrote script and edited the tape.

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How can we bolster our mental resilience during difficult times?

For this episode of Arizona Spotlight, I interviewed Daniel Sullivan, a director of the Cultural-Existential Psychology Lab at the University of Arizona. We talked about community resilience and how to maintain psychological health and support others during COVID-19 pandemic. I also wrote script and edited the audio.

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What "The Decameron", a Medieval Italian masterpiece, can tell us about life during a pandemic

For this episode of Arizona Spotlight, I interviewed Fabian Alfie PhD, a professor at the University of Arizona, who teaches course on Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron. We spoke about lessons from the medieval masterpiece. I also wrote the script for this piece. I also did research for the interview with Frank Figliuzzi, former Assistant Director for Counterintelligence at the FBI during the Obama administration, and edited both pieces.

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Arizona Spotlight Special: Arizona Addicted

For the show I produced an 8-minute segment about opioids, pregnancy and neonatal abstinence syndrome. I made interviews, photography, wrote script and edited audio. The story is narrated by Cheryl Gerken.

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Scientist exploring how intermittent fasting might prevent addiction

When the German pharmaceutical company Bayer marketed a cough medicine in 1898, it wanted to stress its potency and effectiveness, even in small doses. So the drug's name, heroin, was a reference to ancient Greek demigods. The miracle over-the-counter drug could relieve pain, but turned out to be very addictive.

Now, scientists are trying to relieve pain without the side effect of addiction. John Streicher, assistant professor in the pharmacology department at the University of Arizona, studies how opioids work in the human body. His work suggests that one of the solutions could be intermittent fasting.

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For the story I interviewed and photographed the researcher, edited audio and wrote a script. The story is narrated by Mark McLemore