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, a woman talks about her experience having and healing from Munchausen Syndrome, and an expert dispels myths about the condition. -
On this episode of Audacious, meet three sports superfans! Banjo Man (SF 49ers and Oakland A's), Ronnie “Woo Woo“ Wickers (Chicago Cubs), and Bob Labonne (UConn Huskies). -
On this episode of Audacious, meet two memory champions - including one world record holder - and find out about the methods they use to memorize anything. -
On this episode of Audacious, meet a woman who was a character interpreter of an enslaved woman, and a man whose job it is to act like a patient to train med students. -
On this episode of Audacious, meet people who love something so much that they made a palooza out of it: Pogoing, lighters, origami, and John Philip Sousa marches! -
On this episode of Audacious, hear the story of intersex activist, Pidgeon Pagonis. They successfully changed one hospital's policies on surgeries for intersex children. -
On this episode of Audacious, meet people who love farts! Including animal researchers, a hand-farter, and a man born without an anus who now farts on-command. -
On this episode of Audacious, hear about what goes into the art of the interview with CBS’s Gayle King, MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan, and Showtime’s Ziwe. -
On this episode of Audacious, hear from Jayson Greene, author of “Once More We Saw Stars“. On the 9th anniversary of her death, he talks about life after losing his two-year-old, Greta. -
On this episode of Audacious, meet a man with an antenna that turns color into sound, and a choreographer whose implant turns earthquake data into vibrations in her feet.
