When
Angela Lang reflects on the thousands of conversations she and other members of her community organization, BLOC, have had with Milwaukee residents, one floats to the top of her mind.
Angela Lang from BLOC, a community organization that focuses on informing and empowering residents, stands outside her home on Dec. 22, 2020 in Milwaukee. Lang is among the activists who worked to turn out the vote in predominantly Black communities in the city. Darren Hauck for Wisconsin Watch
It was with a 54-year-old Milwaukee resident who explained to Lang’s colleague that she wasn’t voting because she was a convicted felon. Unbeknownst to her, she had been eligible for about 12 years since she completed her probation. A BLOC staffer was the first to tell her she could, in fact, vote.
Meg Anderson
Meg Anderson is an assistant producer on NPR s Investigations team, where she shapes the team s groundbreaking work for radio, digital and social platforms. She served as a producer on the Peabody Award-winning series
Lost Mothers, which investigated the high rate of maternal mortality in the United States. She also does her own original reporting for the team, including the series
Heat and Health in American Cities, which won multiple awards, and the story of a COVID-19 outbreak in a Black community and the systemic factors at play. She also completed a fellowship as a local reporter for WAMU, the public radio station for Washington, D.C. Before joining the Investigations team, she worked on NPR s politics desk, education desk and on
Meg Anderson
Meg Anderson is an assistant producer on NPR s Investigations team, where she shapes the team s groundbreaking work for radio, digital and social platforms. She served as a producer on the Peabody Award-winning series
Lost Mothers, which investigated the high rate of maternal mortality in the United States. She also does her own original reporting for the team, including the series
Heat and Health in American Cities, which won multiple awards, and the story of a COVID-19 outbreak in a Black community and the systemic factors at play. She also completed a fellowship as a local reporter for WAMU, the public radio station for Washington, D.C. Before joining the Investigations team, she worked on NPR s politics desk, education desk and on
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Elissa Nadworny covers higher education and college access for NPR. She s led the NPR Ed team s multiplatform storytelling – incorporating radio, print, comics, photojournalism, and video into the coverage of education. In 2017, that work won an Edward R. Murrow Award for excellence in innovation. As an education reporter for NPR, she s covered many education topics, including new education research, chronic absenteeism, and some fun deep-dives into the most popular high school plays and musicals and the history behind a classroom skeleton.
After the 2016 election, she traveled with Melissa Block across the U.S. for series Our Land. They reported from communities large and small, capturing how people s identities are shaped by where they live.