Mercedes Mejia
Producer/DirectorMercedes Mejia is a producer and director of Stateside and has been with the show since it launched in 2012. Her reporting and producing centers on the intersection of arts, culture and community. Since 2009, Mercedes has contributed to the station in many roles, including as producer for All Things Considered with Jenn White and fill-in hosting. She earned her BA in Journalism and Mass Communication with a minor in Latin American Studies at the University of New Mexico, and she began in public radio as a reporter at KUNM in Albuquerque.
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A recent investigation released by the U.S. Interior Department detailed the conditions in Native American boarding schools for over a century. Fred Kiogima, a survivor of one such school in Michigan and member of the tribal council for the Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians, recounts his experiences and responds to the federal report.
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Recently, the alcohol industry has seen a boom of nonalcoholic beers: Budweiser, Corona and Coors have all introduced their own versions of them. Are nonalcoholic beers the next big thing?
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How different families in Michigan serve up Thanksgiving, from Mexican mole to Russian potato salad to jeon, traditional Korean zucchini fritters.
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This week, Michigan’s COVID infection numbers exploded into a fourth surge that has worried doctors, overwhelmed hospital systems and left the rest of us asking what could be next. We talk to Dr. Preeti Malani, chief health officer at the University of Michigan and Michigan Radio's Dustin Dwyer about the state's current COVID surge.
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A new Michigan-made film tells stories of veterans deported after their military service because of their immigration status.
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Just three days after being sentenced to 11 years hard labor by a military court in Myanmar, and nearly six months after being arrested, journalist Danny Fenster flew home to Michigan.
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The House recently passed a bipartisan infrastructure spending bill and Michigan is getting ready to spend a significant amount of cash.
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Governor Gretchen Whitmer talks about the state’s auto insurance overhaul, and vaccinations for Michigan children ages 5 to 11.
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Staff shortages are the story for this phase of the pandemic and perhaps one of the more difficult spaces this is playing out is in our public education system.
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Chef James Rigato of Mabel Gray talks about what the transformations of the past few years mean to the restaurant business.