Michaela Winberg is a podcast producer at WHYY. She is currently working on Peak Travel, a show from WHYY and PRX about how travel shapes communities in destinations around the world. She has produced podcasts for WHYY News and Digital Studios, including Art Outside, Schooled, and The Statue. In 2022, she reported, hosted, and produced the limited series March On: The Fight for Pride.
Before that, Michaela was a general assignment reporter at Billy Penn. She covered LGBTQ people and culture, public spaces, and transportation and mobility. She also produced regular radio and web features for NPR.
A 2018 graduate of Temple’s Klein College of Media and Communication, Michaela was editor in chief of the university’s student newspaper, The Temple News.
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