Robyn Doyon-Aitken
Deputy Director of Audio Storytelling and Talk ShowsRobyn is the Deputy Director of Storytelling. Previously, she was the host and senior producer of Seasoned, a radio show and podcast celebrating food and farms. Seasoned won first place in the 2023 Connecticut chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists Excellence in Journalism contest for the story, The Gift of the Buffalo Creek Squash. She’s filled in as a producer for several of our local shows, most notably, Where We Live. In 2021, she was part of the team that received first place in the Interview category from the Public Media Journalists Association for the episode “Who Owns History? Connecticut Woman Sues Harvard For Family Photos.” She produced The Faith Middleton Food Schmooze® from November 2015 until the broadcast ended. Before that, she ate her way through the previous seven years of Fine Cooking magazine while its web producer.
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Journalist Elizabeth Bruenig has spent years reporting on the death penalty. In 2020, she started witnessing the executions she'd write about. This week on 'Disrupted,' we examine the human impact of capital punishment. -
On this episode of Audacious, suicide attempt survivors Kevin Hines and Steve MacHattie share what a mental health crisis can feel like, and what helps people stay alive. -
On this episode of Audacious, an ER doctor from The Pitt, an FBI profiler, and a NASA astronaut reveal how experts make TV feel real, and why getting it right matters. -
While #MeToo went viral in 2017, the Me Too movement has been around for 20 years. This hour, we explore the role social media can play for survivors and what, if anything, has changed. -
This hour, the conversation winds around to CDs, records, and consuming music, Buddhist monks, our show, young listeners … Anything. (Seemingly) everything. -
On this episode of Audacious, two autism advocates - Temple Grandin and Kerry Magro - trace the power of autistic minds to redesign systems and reshape stories. -
In this hour, we talk about what it's like to be a student journalist today with the Executive Director of the Student Press Law Center and a panel of student journalists. -
On this episode of Audacious, a ritual expert helps us understand why these small acts matter, and past guests reveal the personal rituals they live by. -
We discuss the book 'Bad Company' this hour on Disrupted, and the omnipresence of private equity firms—their impact on media, retail, politics, healthcare and housing. -
We discuss a new picture book about inventor Jim West and hear from Angeline Boulley, bestselling author of young adult novels like 'Firekeeper's Daughter' and 'Sisters in the Wind'.
