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
On Asian America: Sex, gender and the 'exotic other'
From adult films to a portrait series on Asian men, stereotypes of Asian identity are being disrupted in surprising and creative ways.
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Environment
What’s overheating the planet? Kate Aronoff says capitalism is
‘For better and for worse, our choice now is between eco-socialism or eco-apartheid.’
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Education
Glacier Middle School on alert to returning students' mental health
‘If it were up to me, each and every student would have access to a mental health counselor that they can talk to.’ -Counselor Chasmon Tarimel
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Arts & Life
When theatres went dark, stagehands worked to keep their unique community protected
‘Every time you let out an ooh or an aah because you've seen something on stage, there's someone backstage who worked really, really hard to make that happen. They live for those moments.’
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Arts & Life
Poet’s search for grace, justice amid historic and current anti-Asian hate
Brian Komei Dempster’s ‘poetry of remembering, and the reverberations of our ancestors.’
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Arts & Life
Jess Zimmerman subverts the dominant monster myth paradigm
‘These are the bedtime stories the patriarchy tells itself.’
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Environment
Glowing bunnies and climate change denial. What could go wrong?
Nathaniel Rich considers ‘the horrific interconnectedness of all things’
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Education
Raising boys the non-toxic way: a how-to manual
‘I want him to be able to have those qualities that I saw men wanting, but not being able to have. Like being able to cry.’
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Arts & Life
A visionary constellation of poetry, five decades in the making
Lyric World presents the celebrated poet Arthur Sze
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Environment
Bill Gates is bullish on climate change mitigation, but warns ‘We don’t have time to waste’
How to unmake a man-made global disaster