Melissa Gerr
Senior ProducerMelissa Gerr is a Senior Producer for On the Record. She started in public media at Twin Cities Public Television in St. Paul, Minn., where she is from, and then worked as a field producer for Oregon Public Broadcasting in Portland. She made the jump to audio-lover in Baltimore as a digital media editor at Mid-Atlantic Media and Laureate Education, Inc. and as a field producer for "Out of the Blocks." Her beat is typically the off-beat with an emphasis on science, culture and things that make you say, 'Wait, what?'
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We hear how one non-profit works discreetly with families to prevent child abuse, and another helps families move on from trauma.
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The collapse of the Key Bridge has halted the flow of ships in and out of the Port of Baltimore. We speak with the head of the local longshoremen's union, and hear how long the rebuild might take.
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We go On the Record to remember lives lost in tragedy and to hear about Latino community support.
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In a new collection of photographs and essays Mark Hendricks documents the seasons of Appalachia, and the animal and plant living there. His book is called ‘The Central Appalachians: Mountains of the Chesapeake.’
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Maryland Hall in Annapolis is turning its commemoration of Maryland Day on its head. We get the backstory.
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Coppin State University wants to grow Maryland’s pool of special educators. What's their plan?
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We go On the Record with NPR weekend edition Sunday host Ayesha Rascoe. She edited the book "HBCU Made: A Celebration of the Black College Experience."
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We’ll go On the Record with Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott as he runs for a second term. We ask how he’s addressing crime, property taxes, schools, pandemic relief money, the city’s dwindling population and the proposal to shrink the city council.
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We go On the Record with historian Edda Fields-Black. Her book “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War" tells of a crucial Civil War raid. Under cover of darkness, Harriet Tubman and the Union Army, along with Black enlisted men, liberated 700 enslaved people along the Combee River of South Carolina.