Ellie Katz
Environment Reporter, IPREllie Katz joined IPR in June 2023. She reports on science, conservation and the environment.
She's had previous stints at Heritage Radio Network, FRQNCY Media, Stitcher and Michigan Radio. She's reported on Detroit's roller derby league, dining in the metaverse, knights' training for the restaurant chain Medieval Times, and more. She also co-wrote season three of the climate change podcast A Matter of Degrees — she's thrilled to continue similar work at IPR reporting on science, conservation and the environment.
Ellie first visited Interlochen and northern Michigan shortly after moving to Grand Rapids in middle school. She's happy to have considered the state home ever since, and even happier to be back at Interlochen.
Reach out at ellie.katz@interlochen.org.
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Rufus Snoddy's "construction paintings" almost always stretch beyond the confines of a canvas. Stateside visited Snoddy at his studio in Traverse City to get a glimpse into his mind-bending art and the concepts that inspire him. -
Former Michigan House Speaker Rick Johnson pleaded guilty to accepting bribes. We unpack details of the case and what it means for Michigan's marijuana industry. -
Matthew Osmon blends a range of techniques to create visually striking, evocative art. Based out of, Flint, his hometown, Osmon’s works balance themes of the self with the surreal. -
Detroit poet Nandi Comer will serve as poet laureate for the next two years. She sat down with Stateside to talk about her new role and Michigan's culture of poetry. -
Working out of his Grand Rapids studio, the sculptor Jason Quigno is helping transform the landscape of public art in West Michigan–and making visible the lives of the state's Indigenous people. -
Chances are you've seen a Poweshiek skipperling butterfly and not even known it. But the moth-like insects are rapidly disappearing from their native Midwestern prairies. -
Today, we revisited an education program at the Lakeland Correctional Facility that trains people living on the inside in high-end culinary techniques. The program and its students are the subject of a new documentary film. -
Across the country, suicide rates are nearly twice as high in rural communities as they are in urban ones. Part of Michigan's new proposed gun laws aim to reduce that. We spoke to a suicide prevention activist in the Upper Peninsula. -
Newly elected UAW President Shawn Fain is considered an outsider by many. What does his election mean for a new era of UAW leadership? -
The Michigan Court of Appeals has decided that Jennifer and James Crumbley, the parents of the alleged shooter at Oxford High School, can stand trial for involuntary manslaughter charges. Defense attorney Mike Nichols joined us to explain the charges and the precedent they could set if successful.
