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 the author of "It's Decorative Gourd Season, Mother*@&!s"; a man who sailed down a river in a giant pumpkin; and an underwater pumpkin carving duo. -
On this episode of Audacious, meet two people with genetic conditions that make them look much older than they actually are: Cutis laxa and progeria. -
On this episode of Audacious, meet two unconventional presidential candidates: Paperboy Love Prince, and a man who changed his name to Literally Anybody Else. -
On this episode of Audacious, meet actors Adam Pearson and Crystal Marshall, who have visible facial differences. They are changing the face of leading roles in entertainment. -
On this episode of Audacious, meet people who have devoted their lives to loving wild animals: Thumbelina the squirrel and Walnut the endangered crane. -
On this episode of Audacious, meet two people who overcame their compulsion to steal, and one psychiatrist who studies impulse control disorders like Kleptomania. -
On this episode of Audacious, hear stories from the life of elite security specialist and bodyguard, Will Geddes. -
On this episode of Audacious, meet birder, Peter Kaestner! He discovered a new bird species, and became the first person to catalogue 10,000 birds! -
Meet an extreme ironer, cheese roller, and shin kicking referee (also called a "stickler") on this weird sports episode of Audacious! -
On this episode of Audacious, somatic educator, musician, and life coach, Luis Mojica talks about ways the the body stores trauma, and how we can release it.
