Rob Sivak
Contributing producer, MiddayRob Sivak is a contributing producer for Midday, with host Tom Hall. Recently retired after a seven-year stint as Midday's senior producer, Rob joined WYPR in 2015 as senior producer of Hall's previous show, Maryland Morning (which aired its final broadcast on September 16th, 2016). Before coming to the station, Rob enjoyed a 36-year career at the congressionally funded global broadcaster, Voice of America. At VOA, he honed his skills as a news and feature reporter, producer, editor and program host.
After reporting assignments at VOA's New York City, United Nations and Los Angeles bureaus, Rob spent two decades covering international food, farming and nutrition issues for VOA's 180-million worldwide listeners, and created and hosted several popular VOA science magazines. At Midday, he continued to pursue his passion for radio and his abiding interests in science, health, technology and politics.
Rob grew up as an ex-pat "oil brat" on the Persian Gulf coast of Saudi Arabia, and studied and traveled widely in the Middle East, Europe and Africa. He attended Hofstra University in New York and Boston University's School of Public Communications. Rob and his wife Caroline Barnes, a writer, live in Silver Spring, Maryland, where they've raised three daughters.
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'King of the North' author Jeanne Theoharis shows us how Dr. King’s struggles for racial justice in the North, Midwest and West were as significant as the work he did in his native South. -
In 'Spell Freedom,' a chronicle of the secret schools that fueled the American civil rights movementIn her third book of narrative history, Baltimore-based journalist and author Elaine Weiss documents the courageous efforts from 1955-1970 to secure full equality for African Americans. -
In The Trouble of Color, a historian explores America's color lines and how racial classification impacts Black families and identity. -
Best-selling author Amor Towles discusses his new book of six short stories and a novella, 'Eve in Hollywood,' gathered in a collection called 'Table for Two.' -
Anne Frank died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945. But a new biography examines how, after the posthumous publication of her diary, Frank took on a second life as a historical icon. -
Midday guest host Farai Chideya checks in on our mental well-being with Kerry Graves, executive director of NAMI Baltimore, and Dr. Ernestine Briggs-King, vice-president of the Department of Family and Community Interventions at Kennedy Krieger Institute. -
Bohannon's 2023 book, now out in paperback, delves into ages-old mysteries about the unique development of the female body. -
The popular South African musical troupe, the Ndlovu Youth Choir, joins us for a celebratory hour of song. -
Midday's annual holiday special features music, poetry and stories for the holiday season. -
Theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck spotlights the new stage troupe's revival of a Broadway favorite.
