Mikaela Lefrak
Host and Senior Producer, Vermont EditionMikaela Lefrak is the host and senior producer of Vermont Edition. Her stories have aired nationally on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, Marketplace, The World and Here & Now. A seasoned local reporter, Mikaela has won two regional Edward R. Murrow awards and a Public Media Journalists Association award for her work.
Prior to joining 开云体育 in 2021, Mikaela was a reporter and host at WAMU, the NPR member station for the greater Washington, D.C. region. During her career she has also worked at The New Republic, PRI鈥檚 The World and WGBH Boston, and served as an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer in Oakland, California.
Mikaela received her bachelor鈥檚 degree from Middlebury College and her master鈥檚 degree in broadcast journalism from Boston University. She lives with her husband and daughter in Burlington.
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Bill Shouldice breaks down where our tax dollars come from, where they end up, and how those calculations might change. -
Some of Vermont's nine bat species are endangered, and others are being threatened by disease and habitat destruction. -
The museum closed its doors in the fall, but organizers are hoping its collection will find a new home. -
Levine attributes the state's low death rate in part to widespread adherence to public health guidance. He's set to retire this month. -
The COVID-19 pandemic was the most significant public health challenge Dr. Mark Levine addressed during his tenure, but it wasn't the only one.
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Graff and Amanda Gustin discuss Life Became Very Blurry, a new oral history of Vermont in the pandemic era.
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On the latest installment of Vermont Edition's Animal Hour, we learned about the boom and bust of sheep farming in the state. -
The South Burlington resident combines his passions for nature, science, and art in his informative books for children. -
The muck, the squish, the splatter: mud region has arrived in our region. -
The effect of the Trump administration's cuts to The Department of Education is causing a lot of uncertainty among educators.
