Meg Dalton
Deputy Director, StorytellingMeg Dalton is the deputy director of storytelling for Connecticut Public where she provides editorial support for the station’s talk shows and podcasts, including the limited series 'In Absentia'.
She previously worked for The Takeaway from WNYC, in collaboration with GBH and PRX, and Mobituaries with Mo Rocca. She's also reported and edited for the Columbia Journalism Review, PBS NewsHour, Slate, MediaShift, Hearst Connecticut newspapers, and more. Her audio work has appeared on NPR, WNYC, WSHU, Marketplace, and WBAI.
Meg earned her master's degree from Columbia Journalism School in 2017, where she specialized in audio storytelling and narrative writing, and has taught audio storytelling at Columbia Journalism School, UnionDocs, and public libraries.
Off the clock, she enjoys making horrible puns, attempting to hike every National Park, and hanging out with her cat, Nora Ephron. She also works with Empowerment Avenue’s Writer’s Cohort, a one-on-one volunteer model in which outside editors work with incarcerated writers to workshop and publish their work.
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We're talking with local creators in the food space: Kat Ashmore, the chef behind @katcancook, and David Milton, aka @thedamgram and @thedamtok. Plus, we drink traditional chai with siblings who turned the Muslims of the World (MOTW) Instagram community into a local café.
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On this episode of Audacious, meet two artists whose messages of positivity, encouragement, and love have exploded on social media.
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Connecticut-based artist Andre Rochester talks about social consciousness in art, and designer Busayo Olupona discusses her journey from being an attorney to working in fashion.
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This episode of Audacious is the second installment about people who have facial differences. In this episode, meet two actors who worked together in the 2018 movie, 'Happy Face.'
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In this hour of 'Disrupted,' Elizabeth Ito, creator of 'City of Ghosts,' discusses using people's real voices in her work, and Bethonie Butler talks about her book 'Black TV.'
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On this episode of Audacious, meet protestors who've thrown soup at a Van Gogh, worn all white with a splotch on the crotch to protest circumcision, and used sex toys to protest gun laws.
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This hour on Disrupted, we take a look at friendship. We'll hear about people who defy their peers' expectations of how close friends can be, and we'll talk about intergenerational friendships.
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Master chocolatier Benoit Racquet describes what makes Belgian chocolate special and Ramin Ganeshram explains the (dark) history of chocolate. Plus, ethically sourced chocolate bars you can feel good about buying.
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Colleges are in the spotlight as students hold protests relating to the Israel-Hamas war. Many are wondering how to address harmful speech without curbing free expression.
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On this episode of Audacious, meet two people who were once bullies, talking about how they turned their lives around.