Rachel Ishikawa
Podcast ProducerRachel Ishikawa joined Michigan Public in 2020 as a podcast producer. She produced Kids These Days, a limited-run series that launched in the summer of 2020.
Prior to Michigan Public, Rachel spent three years producing audio in Philadelphia. In addition to her work on the Peabody-nominated The Gospel Roots of Rock and Soul, she was the Social Practice Lab Artist-in-Residence at Asian Arts Initiative. There she collaborated with young people to develop an online audio sequencer that sampled sounds from the rapidly redeveloping Chinatown North Neighborhood. Her radio features range from topics of healthcare to skin stigmas to bioacoustics.
An avid biker, she’s always seeking the best route.
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The Palisades power plant located in Van Buren township closed down in 2022, but there's a new effort to reopen it. -
If you miss it, the next time a total solar eclipse is projected to be visible in the continental United States is not until August of 2044. -
Governor Whitmer discusses the importance of access to mifepristone, an abortion pill, and addresses other questions around reproductive rights. -
A coalition of Michigan adoptees and lawmakers are pushing for new state laws that would simplify the state’s adoption records system. Here's why. -
In Lansing, residents are taking reparations into their own hands. The Justice League of Greater Lansing is focused on the repairing the racial wealth gap in the area. -
Kitab Cafe, with locations in Hamtramck and Detroit, is bringing a blend of coffee and community spaces to Southeast Michiganders. -
EVs have opened up a new space for revenue in the global auto market. But how does American anti-Chinese sentiment and an upcoming election play a role in this? -
Therapy can come in many forms. For psychotherapist Tariq Elsaid, poetry and translation are two primary forms through which he practices psychotherapy. -
Michigan is the only state that still has a broad criminal ban on surrogacy, but that could change as soon as later today. -
A report from the news website The Intercept looked into the FBI records of the plot to kidnap Governor Whitmer in 2020. Their findings tell an even more complicated story.
