Catherine Wheeler
Catherine Wheeler was Iowa Public Radio's All Things Considered host and a reporter from 2021 to 2023.
Before joining IPR, Catherine was a reporter for Wyoming Public Radio, covering northeast Wyoming, education, and statewide politics. She has won a regional Edward R. Murrow for sports reporting and a Public Media Journalists Association award for short documentary.
Catherine has a bachelor's degree in English from Fort Lewis College and a master's in journalism from the University of Missouri, Columbia.
-
Iowa has consistently come up short in providing services to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. And while the state has made attempts to get more providers, one of the only education training programs for some of these services could be discontinued.
-
Inclusive ICR, a coalition in the Iowa City-Cedar Rapids corridor, is offering a new, free tool for area businesses to get assessments on diversity and inclusion efforts.
-
The organization is focused on music education and performance for girls, transgender and nonbinary youth in Iowa.
-
Iowa’s Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP, says it’s had a 20 percent increase in those applying for assistance with this winter’s heating bills.
-
Many people across Iowa are looking for solutions to the state’s workforce shortage. But what do some of the state’s unemployed have to say?
-
Iowa Workforce Development has a new program that it hopes will find unemployed Iowans jobs quicker.
-
More collaboration and technology will be needed to solve the state’s affordable housing crisis. That’s the premise of a project from Iowa State University that’s looking for solutions through 3D printing materials to build houses.
-
Since March 2020, the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs has distributed more than $12 million in state and federal dollars to individual artists and organizations across Iowa in response to the continued pandemic impacts.
-
-
The state is expecting high winds and thunderstorms Wednesday afternoon and night.