Elizabeth Harlow
Stateside Assistant ProducerElizabeth Harlow is an Assistant Producer for Stateside. She has worked in communications and program administration in the higher education and nonprofit sectors since 2011 and arrives at Michigan Radio with substantial background in public storytelling, digital communications, and cultural research.
She holds a BA from Duke University and an MA from the University of Michigan, where she is currently a PhD Candidate in English Language and Literature. She has taught writing and literature at U-M, and her research examines how literary writing has interacted with social change movements in the United States. She is passionate about the social power of stories, both past and present.
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Guns are now the leading cause of death for American children, but Michigan laws won't budge. -
Have you heard of the goiter belt? Michigan used to be “smack dab in the middle” of it. -
Detroit writer Kelsey Ronan’s debut novel poses rich questions about how we carry the collective histories of the places and people we come from. -
For some Black people in the 19th and 20th centuries, "passing" meant living part or all of your life as non-Black. Recent creative works — Lovecraft Country, Passing, and The Vanishing Half — have brought the idea of passing back to the forefront. This month on Stateside, we discuss the life of a Detroiter who passed as white in the '40s and return to historical, pop culture references to passing in America. -
A new survey from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources shows the elk population in the state is healthy and thriving in the northern Lower Peninsula. -
Climbing has exploded in popularity from a niche outdoor activity into a mainstream fitness option. As it has, groups like Send Friends have popped up to make gyms, crags, and ice pillars friendlier to new women and nonbinary climbers. Listen to a first time ice climber's experience joining the group at a unique venue offering 72 feet of elevation on artificial ice. -
For Black University of Michigan students, finding everyday hair care products is not easy. Two students sought to change that with the Youniversity Beauty Supply Machine, the first and only vending machine on campus that dispenses Black hair care products. -
There’s not a lot you can get Democrats and Republicans to agree on these days. The response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine seems to be the exception. Today on the podcast, a view on Ukraine from two Michigan congressional representatives on opposite sides of the aisle. -
Metro Detroit is one of the most racially segregated areas in the country. And when you're a Black person from a place like this, you probably learn to code switch at an early age. Today, Black people code switching as they move between majority white spaces and majority black spaces, something that's often necessary in order to get by in the world. -
On one corner in Detroit, a unique museum with 18 striking outdoor installations and thousands of African beads spans nearly a full city block. The creator of that museum, Olayami Dabls, was honored this month as the Kresge Eminent Artist of 2022.
