Rachel Ishikawa
Podcast ProducerRachel Ishikawa joined Michigan Radio in 2020 as a podcast producer. She produced Kids These Days, a limited-run series that launched in the Summer of 2020.
Prior to Michigan Radio, Rachel spent three years producing audio in Philadelphia. In addition to her work on the Peabody-nominated The Gospel Roots of Rock and Soul, she was the Social Practice Lab Artist-in-Residence at Asian Arts Initiative. There she collaborated with young people to develop an online audio sequencer that sampled sounds from the rapidly redeveloping Chinatown North Neighborhood. Her radio features range from topics of healthcare to skin stigmas to bioacoustics.
An avid biker, she’s always seeking the best route.
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Zoe Clark, in for April Baer, walked us through the week of politics along with some members of the Lansing press corp. -
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 road ahead for GOP gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon is not an easy one. We broke down what it will take for her to compete with a well-funded incumbent. Plus, Republican Congressman Peter Meijer (MI-3) lost his primary race — after being one of only 10 Republicans who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump. What does that tell us about the political winds in West Michigan?
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It's Primary Election Day in Michigan. County clerks weigh in on how it's going so far, and how their jobs have shifted since the last presidential election.
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Vacation plans? Travel plans? Here's what you need to know about COVID this summer. And what to expect in the fall.
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With great bookshelves come great responsibilities. For writer and critic Douglas Wolk, that means consuming some 27,000 comic books – the entirety of Marvel comics' output spanning more than half a century.
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Detroit Public Television's Great Lakes Now production team has two members who competed last weekend in a sailboat race from Port Huron to Mackinac Island.
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You have your campsite reserved. What now? The food! Freelance food writer Alex Beggs has you covered.
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Included in the slate of impactful Supreme Court rulings is the 6-3 decision in the West Virginia v. EPA case. It would allow the Supreme Court to essentially veto regulations from executive agencies.
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In 1966, Renee Chelian had an illegal abortion that almost killed her. That experience, when she was just 15 years old, inspired a lifetime of work as an abortion clinic owner in Metro Detroit.
