Matthew Alvarez
Matthew was a producer for River to River and Talk of Iowa. Matt is a native Texan, he grew up in El Paso and moved to Central Texas for school. Matthew holds a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Mass Communication and a Bachelor of Science in Applied Sociology both from Texas State University in San Marcos. He’s also a graduate of the Spring 2019 Transom Story Workshop in Woods Hole, MA.
Before joining IPR, Matthew worked as the Public Affairs Director, Senior Producer for Entercom Austin and he got his start in college radio as a Host, Reporter, and On-Air Personality for KTSW.
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Iowans feast on morel mushrooms in the spring — but they'll never tell you where they found them. -
Lost in the In-Between: Graduating in 2020 is the first production of the Daily Iowan Documentary Workshop. The filmmakers join the program to discuss working on the documentary while also grappling with the pandemic. Plus: the hunt for the elusive Morel.
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On this Garden Variety bonus episode, Charity heads into the woods with master mushroom hunter Mark Vitosh.
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Robert Leonard is a keen observer of his fellow humans. He studies us from the perspective of a trained anthropologist and a seasoned journalist.
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Talk of Iowa host Charity Nebbe talks to medical anthropologist Emily Mendenhall — who's from Okoboji — who studied the pandemic in her hometown.
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Published in 1986, Thomas and Beulah is a poetry collection that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1987, inspired by the lives of Rita Dove's grandparents.
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Host Charity Nebbe speaks with business researchers about the causes of burnout and the solutions for organizations and individuals.
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Black mothers in Iowa are six times more likely to die as a result of childbirth than white mothers. On this episode of Talk of Iowa, host Charity Nebbe and her guests explore the reasons for that statistic and the work being done to change that reality.
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We listen back to the Talk of Iowa book club conversation about Octavia Butler's Kindred, which is set to debut as a miniseries this month.
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Author Lan Samantha Chang, University of Iowa professor and director of the Iowa Writer's Workshop, explores identity and belonging in her third novel about a Chinese American family and the death that causes their simmering resentments to erupt.
