Robyn Doyon-Aitken
Deputy Director of Audio Storytelling and Talk ShowsRobyn is the Deputy Director of Storytelling. Previously, she was the host and senior producer of Seasoned, a radio show and podcast celebrating food and farms. Seasoned won first place in the 2023 ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists Excellence in Journalism contest for the story, The Gift of the Buffalo Creek Squash. She’s filled in as a producer for several of our local shows, most notably, Where We Live. In 2021, she was part of the team that received first place in the Interview category from the Public Media Journalists Association for the episode “Who Owns History? ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Woman Sues Harvard For Family Photos.†She produced The Faith Middleton Food Schmooze® from November 2015 until the broadcast ended. Before that, she ate her way through the previous seven years of Fine Cooking magazine while its web producer.
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Anna Deavere Smith hopes her one-woman shows inspire people to take action. She discusses courage, doubt and her new play 'This Ghost of Slavery.'
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This hour on Where We Live, PBS chef and cookbook author Lidia Bastianich shares some of her American story and answers your cooking and turkey-roasting questions ahead of Thanksgiving. What are your family food traditions?
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On this episode of Audacious, meet people who help healthcare leaders do the right thing: A medical ethicist, and the Chief of Ethics for the American Psychological Association.
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New Haven’s official historian, Michael Morand, doesn’t sugarcoat the past. This hour on Disrupted, we explore the histories of New Haven and Yale, including their roles in slavery.
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On this episode of Audacious, meet two animal communicators telling stories from their sessions. Plus, get tips on how you can connect more deeply with your pet.
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We talk to the director and producer of the new documentary, "The Body Politic," featuring Baltimore mayor Brandon Scott. Plus, how Future Caucus brings young lawmakers together to create bipartisan solutions.
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On this episode of Audacious, meet two people who discovered that they were born as a result of incest. Hear how they found compassion and meaning in helping others.
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This hour, our guests say that anti-Black racism is baked into U.S. education policy and making college campuses more inclusive goes beyond admitting a diverse student body.
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On this episode of Audacious, meet a lawyer who exclusively works with lottery winners, and a man who, at 21 years old, won a $28 million Powerball jackpot.
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This hour, Yale law professor James Forman Jr. talks about dismantling mass incarceration at every level, from policing to prisons to courts.