Michelle Jokisch Polo
Stateside ProducerMichelle Jokisch Polo is a producer for Stateside. She joins us from WKAR in Lansing, where she reported in both English and Spanish on a range of topics, including politics, healthcare access and criminal justice. Her stories have appeared on NPR, as well as WBUR's Here & Now and Marketplace. Michelle began her career as a journalist as the head reporter at El Vocero Hispano, the largest Hispanic newspaper in Michigan.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped the landscape of business and work as we know it. During this episode of Revival, we examine how businesses adapted during unprecedented times. -
Michigan State University mathematician Albert Cohen tells us how we can use statistics to fill our March Madness brackets. -
In the eleventh hour, the Michigan legislature wrote a bi-partisan compromise to limit the state’s wage increases as well as change paid sick leave requirements. Sean Egan from the Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity broke these changes down. -
Mary Frances Phillips' "Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins” is a biography of one of the party's longest serving women. -
Municipalities and public universities in Michigan that don’t cooperate with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement could be at risk of losing future funding from the state’s discretionary budget. That's thanks to a Republican-backed resolution adopted by the Michigan House. -
The tale of a budding friendship between writers Dwight ‘Skip’ Stackhouse and James Baldwin. -
As immigration policies change in this country, misinformation is spreading across social media, including rumors of immigration arrests at a Grand Rapids high school. -
A conversation about the legacy of Grand Rapids restaurateur Marie Catrib. -
Una semana después de la toma de posesión del presidente Donald Trump, muchos de los peores temores sobre deportaciones masivas aún no se han materializado. Sin embargo, la propagación de rumores deja claro que muchas personas en Michigan se encuentran en máxima alerta. -
Today, Michelle Jokisch Polo takes us through the Laken Riley Act and it's impacts on immigrants without legal status.
