Erica McIntosh
Senior Regional Editor (Fairfield County)Erica McIntosh is Senior Regional Editor for Southern Connecticut. Erica is a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award recipient and Emmy-nominated journalist.
Erica joined Connecticut Public in 2023 and has since helped lead the station's news expansion into Fairfield County, launched the Black Voices news initiative and provides editorial support for Disrupted.
In 2023, Erica was selected as a Fellow of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies' Public Media Editorial Integrity and Leadership Initiative. She was also named one of the Maynard 200 Fellows of 2024 at the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education.
Erica comes to public media from the television news industry, where she served in producer and executive producer roles. Her responsibilities included managing news teams and a variety of segments, such as daily newscasts and various talk shows centered around politics and entertainment.
Erica's career journey has spanned newsrooms along the East Coast including Washington, D.C., New York and Connecticut.
She also thoroughly enjoys her role as an adjunct professor at both Fairfield and Quinnipiac universities.
Erica holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mass Communication from Trinity-Washington University and a Master of Science degree in Journalism from Quinnipiac University.
She was born and raised in Connecticut and enjoys playing the piano, and spending quality time with her son and their dog.
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This hour, we are taking a look at childbirth and postpartum health in Connecticut. We'll hear a firsthand account of postpartum depression and we'll learn about the disparities in Connecticut. -
Beth Simone Noveck previously served as Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the White House. She joins us to talk about how we have to make a choice about how we will use AI. -
This hour, we are taking a look at weight stigma. We talk about the relationship between anti-Blackness and anti-fatness, and we hear how weight stigma impacts things like medical care and employment. -
We hear from Civic Works, a new organization that plans to build community in New Haven. We also talk to two legal experts about strategies for advancing DEI in the current political moment. -
U.S. Senator Chris Murphy thinks Americans need to change their values. He makes the argument in his new book, 'Crisis of the Common Good: The Fight for Meaning and Connection in a Broken America.' -
This year's winner of the Stowe Prize is Princess Joy L. Perry. Her debut novel, 'This Here is Love,' follows multiple characters as it depicts slavery in 1690s Virginia and the complex hierarchies that form. -
We explore three essential questions about 9/11: What do we remember? How does personal memory become shared history? And what do we choose to carry forward? -
Award-winning author Edwidge Danticat talks about her latest book, 'Dèy,' which tells the story of a Haitian American woman in Miami trying to understand a traumatic experience. -
We are reframing failure and celebrating people who forge their own path. We talk to the Founder of the Museum of Failure and host a panel discussion with young people about taking non-traditional journeys. -
We'll learn how the history of discrimination at pools impacts people of color, and we'll talk to a local group who provides adaptive swim lessons to neurodivergent students.
