Danielle Gehr
Talk Show ProducerDani Gehr is a producer for River to River and Talk of Iowa. Dani came to Iowa from her hometown in the northwest suburbs of Chicago to attend Iowa State University, where she received a bachelor’s degree in journalism, international studies and French. Before coming to IPR, Dani covered local government in Story County for the Ames Tribune and Des Moines Register.
You can contact Dani at dgehr@iowapublicradio.org or on Twitter @GehrDani.
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As a now ex-University of Iowa employee lied about his identity, the real William Woods ended up in a mental health facility after trying to convince authorities he was who he said he was.
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University of Iowa professor Benjamin Hunnicut — who has been studying how we work, live and recreate for 50 years — will retire this year.
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Nineteen-year-old Christopher Turnis needed a second new kidney, but his donor wasn't a match. Through the National Kidney Registry, a chain of living donors formed to find Turnis a compatible organ.
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Iowa Republicans are currently working on a constitutional amendment that would require a flat tax rate and could raise the bar for increasing personal and corporate taxes in the future.
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In 1869, Iowa was directly in the path of a total solar eclipse.
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A new docuseries, If Not For Them, shines a light on the many women who made this extraordinary moment in collegiate basketball possible.
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Caitlin Clark is a basketball phenomenon, catapulting women’s sports to a level previously untouched.
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Erika Schwartz was born in a Jewish ghetto in Hungary in 1944, one day before Nazis sealed it off. Against all odds she and her mother survived the Holocaust, eventually moving to the United States.
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Artificial intelligence has been the subject of many dystopian novels and movies, but it's become apparent that AI will intersect with more and more aspects of our lives and careers. On this River to River, how AI can be wielded as a tool, and the concerns that make that future murky.
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Two eaglets hatched right on time this past week at a nest monitored by the Raptor Resource Project near Decorah.