Jennifer was executive producer of Michigan Radio’s Peabody award-winning podcast Believed, and is currently developing new podcasts for the station. She was a 2018 Knight-Wallace journalism fellow at the University of Michigan. She’s been with Michigan Radio since 2005, where she started as an on-air host and arts reporter. She then covered poverty and education in metro Detroit for five years as part of the station’s State of Opportunity team.
The Detroit chapter of the Society for Professional Journalists named her “Young Journalist of the Year” in 2008, and her stories have been featured on NPR, Marketplace and Studio 360.
Jennifer got her start in radio as a producer at WFUV in the Bronx. She and her husband live in Ann Arbor with their two hilarious kids.
Contributions from Jennifer Guerra
- Closed Detroit charter looks to court for help with payroll issues
We have an update on the efforts to get Detroit area charter school employees paid for time worked during the school year. Many employees at Michigan Technical Academy spread their paychecks out over … - Detroit schools move to cut back on testing by 70%
Detroit public school students could soon be spending a lot less time on testing during the school year. The Detroit Public Schools Community District is moving to cut the number of assessments they g … - Detroit charter CEO tells unpaid teachers to "hang in there" while he looks for a solution
We reported last week that a Detroit area charter school used state money to pay its bondholders instead of its teachers. Many employees at Michigan Technical Academy spread their paychecks out over t … - Nearly 2,000 MI college students see no debt relief yet under Trump administration
More than 460 Michigan college students who say they have been defrauded by their for-profit schools filed federal claims this year to try to get their student loans forgiven. But the Trump administra … - Detroit's public school teachers approve 3-year contract
Detroit's public school teachers have approved a three-year contract that includes a roughly 7 percent wage increase over the next two years. The contract with the Detroit Public Schools Communit …