Kiana Fernandes
Afternoon NewcasterKiana Fernandes is a senior journalism student at the University of Missouri in Columbia studying cross-platform editing and producing. She prefers reporting on arts and culture, with an emphasis on classical music. She was drawn to radio because of its connection to humanity's history of oral storytelling and the power the spoken word can have. Fernandes also has experience in podcast production and Missouri statehouse reporting.
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In the final episode of season one, we’re turning things over to River Town Producer Tadeo Ruiz. Tadeo is pretty new to Missouri – via Mexico City - and he’s been surprised to learn about how much people here love the river. But during his reporting for River Town, he started to feel connected with one Missouri River town in particular… Rocheport. Follow him along his journey as he gets to know the river and the people who love it.
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Water is life. It gets us places. Connects us to each other. It holds history and tradition. It keeps all these things, and us, alive. History, and modern stories, show us this. For this episode, we explored these connections by documenting modern Indigenous relationships to the Missouri River and other sacred waters, caught a boat ride with historian and author Greg Olson, and observed a water blessing at the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers.
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In this episode of River Town, we’re going to meet River Town’s youngest upstanding citizens, learn what people are doing to protect our waterways from pollution, and what’s happening in Missouri water policy right now.
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Protestors gathered on campus late Monday morning to stand in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. KBIA's Kiana Fernandes was there and brings us this audio postcard.
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In this episode, we’re having some fun. We’ll meet people who choose to spend their time sweating on the river. Our producers spent this past autumn meeting casual trail users, dry-land athletes and big river paddlers who enjoy actually getting their feet wet.
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In the very first episode of River Town, we’re exploring how the Missouri River of today inspires artists -- from folk musicians, to watercolor painters with a penchant for pretzel paddle boating, to writers recounting their childhood “flood monster” memories. We want to know . . . no shame for this pun . . . How does the Missouri River help artists find their flow?
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Brian Turner is a poet, essayist and musician. Last year, he published three poetry books that explored love and loss. He will be on a panel of veteran writers at Unbound because of his previous work about his experience in the U.S. military.
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