Mercedes Mejia
Producer/DirectorMercedes Mejia is a producer and director of Stateside, and has been with the show since it launched in 2012. She is also the host of The Dish podcast. Her reporting and producing centers on the intersection of arts, culture and community. Since 2009, Mercedes has contributed to the station in many roles, including as producer for All Things Considered with Jenn White, and producer of multi-media content. She earned her BA in Journalism and Mass Communication with a minor in Latin American Studies at the University of New Mexico, and she began in public radio as a reporter at KUNM in Albuquerque.
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After over three decades of vacancy and a $949 million investment from Ford, the historic Michigan Central Station building will reopen to the public this week. -
Alma Cooper is Miss Michigan USA 2024. Here's what she wans to accomplish this year. -
Presidential candidates and surrogates visit Michigan highlighting the state’s role in this election year. -
Chef Eddie Vargas talks beef, broth, and birria as he walks us through the family recipe that forms the base of his culinary philosophy. -
A Michigan birder invites us to pause, listen, and enjoy the sights and sounds of bird species in winter and spring. -
Painter, educator, and gallerist Nora Chapa Mendoza received the 2024 Kresge Eminent Artist Award. Stateside visited her home and studio in West Bloomfield. -
Food critic Lyndsay Green shared new and noteworthy restaurants from the past year in Detroit and Metro Detroit. -
Michigan's pizza chains helped make pizza huge, but they're not the only Michigan bred pizza innovation. We tell the story of the new "it girl" in pizza: Detroit style. -
Steve Amick joins us to talk about the inspiration and the writing process behind his book You Shall See the Beautiful Things. -
In a remote corner of the Thumb region lies the largest collection of petroglyphs in Michigan. The stone carvings were created hundreds of years ago by the Indigenous people of this land. Today, tribal and state partners are working together to preserve the site for generations to come.
