Megan Fitzgerald
Senior Manager of Projects and Radio ProgrammingMeg Fitzgerald is the senior manager of projects and radio programming. She works with Connecticut Public's senior director and talk show producers to ensure our audio stories are represented digitally. She is a key liaison for our national radio programming. Meg also helps to manage and co-produce special projects like StoryCorps CT, NautiWeek, Where ART Thou?, and other program initiatives across our radio and podcast teams .
Meg started her career in the music and entertainment industry. She has booked artists and special events for art centers throughout the Northeast and mid-Atlantic regions, including The Bushnell and Infinity Music Hall (Hartford, CT), the Warner Theatre (Torrington, CT), and The Kimmel Cultural Campus (Philadelphia, PA). She also programmed stages for the Philadelphia International Festival of Arts and worked with Live Nation.
In 2015, Meg joined Connecticut Public as an associate producer for Infinity Hall Live and The Kate, two nationally distributed public television music series. She also helped launch Connecticut Public's social media strategy in 2019.
When Meg's not diving into storytelling projects and music, she's studying herbalism and plant medicine, including making her tea blends, syrups, and other fun concoctions. She loves nature, art, astrology, and spending quality time with her family and friends.
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On this episode of Audacious, meet protestors who've thrown soup at a Van Gogh, worn all white with a splotch on the crotch to protest circumcision, and used sex toys to protest gun laws. -
We listen back to our candid hour with Reginald Dwayne Betts. We talk about what books meant to him when he was incarcerated and how his time in prison still impacts him. -
This hour, we took your calls about anything you wanted to talk about. -
On this episode of Audacious, meet wingsuit BASE jumper, Ellen Brennen Frat, and the first women to ski solo to the South Pole, Liv Arnesen. -
Exploring love and politics. Activist Dean Spade believes political organizing requires emotional work and psychology professor Terri Conley examines power dynamics. -
On this episode of Audacious, explore telepathy, intuition, how to live a good life, and read people's minds with mentalist, Dr. Kruti Parekh. -
Brandon J. Dirden directed Yale Repertory Theatre's production of Eden. He joins us to talk about his career and the complex racial dynamics in the play. -
On this episode of Audacious, meet chef Christine Ha, who became the first blind person to win MasterChef, and poet Edward Hirsch, who finds exhilaration in his blindness. -
This hour, we reflect on two of the most prominent civil rights thinkers in U.S history and how they connect to our present political moment. -
On this episode of Audacious, we follow first-time, non-violent offender, Mike West, before, during, and after he spends a year incarcerated.
