Brandi Fullwood
Senior Producer
About
Brandi Fullwood is a senior producer at KUOW. She currently works in Audioshop on special projects. She joined KUOW in 2019 as a producer on The Record and was promoted to her current position in 2021. She was also part of the team that launched the new iteration of the midday show Soundside. She has produced a range of stories from dinosaur experts to misinformation in the 2020 election.
Previously, Brandi worked for The World, a co-production of the BBC World Service. She focused on tech, culture, and environment stories. Brandi also led a collaborative project for The World and Smithsonian Folkways, creating pieces and reporting on music, culture, and communities like this and this and this.
Brandi has written and produced for NPR Music and Noisey Music, and has reported for the New Haven Independent. She grew a love for radio through Middlebury College radio station’s WRMC 91.1 FM.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English
Stories
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Environment
Microplastics. It's what's for dinner
Microplastics seem to be in everything, everywhere, all at once. The tiny pieces of plastic are two tenths of an inch or smaller and have been found in the ocean and our bodies. That's right, microplastics have been found in poop and even our blood. But how do we fix that?
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Environment
What our poop tells us: Wastewater surveillance examines what most of us would prefer to flush and forget
You've probably taken part in one of the new frontiers of public health research: wastewater surveillance. All that's needed is a sample from down the drain: poop or pee. Our feces and urine are helpful indicators in detecting all sorts of outbreaks and infections. And wastewater surveillance can give scientists a preview of new viruses and disease variants, patterns of drug usage, and much more. Including potentially assessing the next pandemic.
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Health
Adulting 101: Tap into your inner child
Throughout this pandemic many of us have dipped into nostalgia and tapped into childhood to cope. Borrowing from the past can be helpful, but it can also be really hard to go back there. That’s where inner child work comes in.
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Education
These students protested racism and sexual violence. They say school officials responded with retaliation
In January, students at Olympia's River Ridge High School came together for a week-long protest. The high school’s Black Student Union, joined by allies, called for district administrators to address racial and sexual violence on campus. Now, the Black Student Union is considering filing a class action lawsuit against North Thurston Public Schools for alleged retaliation by school officials.
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Arts & Life
This Coast Salish punk wants you to call her anything other than 'survivor'
When Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe set out to write her first memoir she was carrying on a family legacy of telling native stories. Her new book, Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk, weaves together her own life with the stories of her ancestors. But Red Paint is not just a story of generational trauma, it's about strength.
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Government
After the flood: Whatcom County executive on disaster recovery
County governments are on the front lines addressing the thorniest challenges. Take Whatcom County, in northwest Washington. Last year, towns near the Nooksack river were devastated by winter flooding, while the county was navigating its response to the COVID-19 pandemic and homelessness rose to the highest level in more than a decade.
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Business
Now hiring: 11 million jobs across the U.S.
The Department Labor reported in January that there were 11.3 million job openings in the United States. The labor market is flooded with "outstanding opportunities" for jobs across sectors. But workers aren't rushing to fill all of those vacancies.
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'We need to be able to tailor our support': Chronic homelessness in King County
City and county leaders alike say focusing on chronic homelessness is a key part of addressing the region's homelessness issues. That focus includes pairing housing with services.
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Environment
What is Antarctic ice telling us? This UW scientist can translate
Sea ice around Antarctica is reaching record lows in 2022. The ice is melting from the bottom and high winds are pushing sheets of ice further apart. And, the ice on glaciers and shelves are melting too. The more that ice melts, the more sea levels rise. That means more floods, storm surges, and erosion.
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Government
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell pledges to lead with compassion — and encampment removal
Citing sidewalk obstruction, the city of Seattle cleared a longstanding tent encampment that sat right across from city hall, on 4th avenue. It's the latest move by Mayor Bruce Harrell's administration in response to the city's ongoing homelessness crisis.