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Ainslie Wilson has a B.A from UIS, and is a graduate student at Northwestern University. She finds experiences in radio, comedy, film, theater, and travel driving her path to the future.

The former director of the Public Affairs Reporting (PAR) graduate program is Professor Charles N. Wheeler III, a veteran newsman who came to the University of Illinois at Springfield following a 24-year career at the Chicago Sun-Times.

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Linda Holmes is a pop culture correspondent for NPR and the host of Pop Culture Happy Hour. She began her professional life as an attorney. In time, however, her affection for writing, popular culture, and the online universe eclipsed her legal ambitions. She shoved her law degree in the back of the closet, gave its living room space to DVD sets of The Wire, and never looked back.

Mike Pesca first reached the airwaves as a 10-year-old caller to a New York Jets-themed radio show and has since been able to parlay his interests in sports coverage as a National Desk correspondent for NPR based in New York City.

Alan Cheuse died on July 31, 2015. He had been in a car accident in California earlier in the month. He was 75. Listen to NPR Special Correspondent Susan Stamburg's retrospective on his life and career.

Peter Overby has covered Washington power, money, and influence since a foresighted NPR editor created the beat in 1994.

Since 2018, Greg Rosalsky has been a writer and reporter at NPR's Planet Money.

Andee Tagle (she/her) is an associate producer and now-and-then host for NPR's Life Kit podcast.