Sophia Saliby
All Things Considered Local Host and ProducerSophia Saliby is the local producer and host of All Things Considered, airing 4pm-7pm weekdays on 90.5 FM WKAR.
Sophia Saliby joined WKAR and MSU ComArtSci in April 2020.
Sophia comes to WKAR from Georgia Public Broadcasting, where she was the producer for GPB's All Things Considered broadcast in Atlanta.
Prior to that experience, Sophia was a reporter for WFIU/WTIU in Bloomington, Indiana. She has won numerous awards from the Indiana Associated Press Broadcasters Association and the Indiana Society of Professional Journalists. Saliby graduated from Indiana University with degrees in international studies and Arabic.
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Grand Ledge librarian says self-help guides and books with movie adaptations were popular 2025 readsA librarian for the Grand Ledge Area District Library shares the most popular books and genres checked out in 2025.
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For many years, Delhi Township staff have accepted letters from local children bound for Santa Claus at the North Pole and helped deliver personal responses back.
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The "What Lansing Council" podcast offers recaps of Lansing City Council meetings from public comment to policy decisions to what attendees are wearing.
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Dungeons & Flagons is a new downtown Lansing business that offers space for people to rent to play tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons.
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Teacher shortages, cell phones in the classroom and chronic absenteeism are all contributing factors to Michigan students' low reading scores.
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One queer couple Lansing is navigating federal changes to LGBTQ protections and shrinking options for gender-affirming healthcare.
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Seasonal Sampler from WKAR features holiday music on a 24/7 livestream at wkar.org.
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MSU professor Doug Bessette researches the reasons why communities support or oppose renewable energy development. Some of this work could be applied to data centers.
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Michigan State University Libraries received a $1 million federal grant to digitize early WKAR-TV programs from the 1950s and '60s.
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Michigan's Indigenous communities harvest wild rice, or manoomin, every year as part of their cultural heritage and modern-day work to restore the plant.