Mercedes Mejia
Producer/DirectorMercedes Mejia is 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 culture, immigration, food, arts, and music. Mercedes has been at the station since 2009 in many different roles, including as producer for All Things Considered with Jenn White. She is from New Mexico, where she earned her BA in Journalism and Mass Communication with a minor in Latin American Studies. She began in public radio as a reporter at KUNM in Albuquerque. She also brings extensive video production and marketing skills from her work at Univision and Edit House Productions.
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Wasem Fruit Farm is a staple visit for many in southeast Michigan. This year marks the end of an era for its current owners. -
The Detroit Bus Company is on the rebound from a break in earlier this month after theves stole several catalytic converters.
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Detroit artist Scott Hocking showed us around the city that in many ways is his studio. He's a specialist in creating beauty in the spaces most people have left behind, but his latest installation is much more public facing: in front of the Huntington Place convention center downtown.
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A group of teens are changing the theater landscape in Detroit. But they're not reinventing the wheel — instead they're building off of the Mexican Carpas theater tradition to create whimsical, bilingual performances. The group is called La Carpa Theatre and is run by artist Karilú Alarcón Forshee.
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The Great Lakes are known for their beauty. But, they are simultaneously dangerous and unpredictable bodies of water.
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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.
