
Erin Jones
Cultural Affairs ProducerErin Jones is Wyoming Public Radio's cultural affairs producer, as well as the host and senior producer of HumaNature. She began her audio career as an intern in the Wyoming Public Radio newsroom, and has reported on issues ranging from wild horse euthanization programs to the future of liberal arts in universities. Her audio work has been featured on WHYY Philadelphia’s The Pulse and the podcast Out There.
In addition to her regular production work on HumaNature, she has led two innovative science series for the podcast: “Science Camp”, which explored the human side of science, and “The Event Horizon”, which started with black holes, detoured through god, and ended with death.
Erin earned her Bachelor of Arts from The University of Texas at Austin in geography, and her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Wyoming in creative writing and environment and natural resources. Her writing has won the Frank Nelson Doubleday Award, a Kimmel Harding Nelson residency, and publications in The Normal School and Western Confluence.
Erin grew up in Texas, Utah, and Georgia, but she’s mostly Texan. Her partner in crime is her Hurricane Harvey rescue lab mix, Frankie.
Phone: 307-766-2418
Email: ejones29@uwyo.edu
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Listen to the full show here. "The Spanish School:" Mexican Segregation In Northwest Wyoming Usually segregation in school is something you heard about in…
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Listen to the full show here. Wyoming's Black Pioneer Community That Disappeared When you think of pioneers, you might imagine Little House on the…
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When you think of pioneers, you might imagine Little House on the Prairie. Or the Oregon Trail game we all played in the nineties. One thing these popular…
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The award-winning Wyoming Public Media podcast HumaNature enters its sixth season this coming week. The podcast host and senior producer Erin Jones joined…
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Listen to the full show here. How Wyoming Hospitals Are Dealing With A Record Spike In COVID-19 Patients This past week saw a record 56 COVID-19 patients…
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Even though there's a pandemic happening, life must go on—and that includes publishing books. After being delayed from a June publication, a new novel…
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Listen to the full show here."How Proud You Must Be": New History Recognizes Wyoming's Suffrage FirstsThere's an ongoing debate in the American West about…
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The legal right to vote doesn't always translate to the ability to vote. There can be barriers to the polls, says Susan Simpson, the president of the…
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Listen to the full show here. Fewer Cars On The Road, Fewer Dollars For Highways: What COVID-19 Means For WYDOT While many businesses are losing money in…
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The news can tend to focus on everything that's going wrong. So Wyoming Public Radio's Erin Jones wanted to know about Wyomingites' pandemic silver…