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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Some of Michigan’s undocumented migrant farmworkers are travelling to the U.S. Capitol this week to advocate for a path to citizenship. That’s after a Senate official blocked immigration reforms in a budget bill. -
Michigan State University’s Broad Art Museum wants to bring attention to the ways incarceration affects society through six new art exhibitions.The… -
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is asking people who attended the Faster Horses country music festival this month to get tested for… -
With bipartisan support, the Michigan Senate is formally recognizing June as LGBTQ Pride Month.Lawmakers adopted a formal resolution Thursday with… -
As states across the U.S. begin lifting indoor mask mandates for the fully vaccinated, there's widespread confusion. Both businesses and customers are struggling over their decisions on mask-wearing.
