April Van Buren
Stateside ProducerApril Van Buren is a producer for Stateside. She produces interviews for air as well as web and social media content for the show.
Before landing at Michigan Public, April worked as a producer for Current State at WKAR and a reporting intern and producer at WBEZ in Chicago.
April graduated from Harvard University in 2012 with a degree in American History and Literature (aka the most liberal artsy of liberal arts degrees). She is a die-hard 30 Rock fan and once saw Tina Fey do the chicken dance at a party.
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Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald has thought a lot about how communities can do a better job of preventing gun violence. We talked to her about prevention in the wake of a shooting at a splash pad in Rochester Hills on Saturday. -
As Great Lakes port cities like Muskegon start welcoming the increasing number of cruise ships in the Great Lakes, they're having to think about their tourist amenities from a different angle. -
When the Reproductive Health Care Act passed last year, it contained a little-known provision that’s about to take effect. After this summer’s data drop, Michigan state officials will no longer keep track of abortion care procedures in the state. -
Listen to our conversation with musicians Michael Trotter Jr. and Tanya Blount Trotter, the couple behind the band The War and Treaty. We talked to them in 2020 about their musical collaboration and the ways they have found solace and healing in their work. -
Governments and auto manufacturers have big plans for switching the United States to electric vehicles. It's one of many efforts to reduce the impacts of climate change. But there's a key ingredient in electrification that could put a crimp in that plan: copper. -
Ann Arbor Public Schools is facing a projected $25 million dollar deficit in the coming year. So, what happens now? Stateside talked to the board of education's president about the plan for righting the ship. -
From third-party candidates to voting patterns among Gen Z, will Michigan be any kind of bellwether of trends for national election results? -
For many catastrophically injured survivors of auto accidents, Michigan's 2019 reforms to no-fault insurance meant losing the care they’ve depended on for years. On this episode, we hear about the attempts to increase the caps on in-home nursing care for those survivors — and why proposed reforms are stalling. -
It's Ramadan, which means that many Sudanese Michiganders are enjoying hilo mur, a bright, magenta-colored spiced drink. -
This week, the mother of the shooter in the Oxford High School mass shooting was convicted on four counts of involuntary manslaughter. This verdict is another step in the Oxford community’s years-long pursuit of justice.
