Sheilah Kast
Host, On The RecordSheilah Kast hosts On The Record, Monday-Friday, 9:30-10:00 am. She came to WYPR from NPR 2006. In 2014 she and her team at Maryland Morning won a prestigious Dupont-Columbia University award for a year-long probe of inequality in the Baltimore region called “The Lines Between Us.” Sheilah learned how to report the news at The Washington Star, and learned the craft of broadcasting at ABC News, where she covered the White House, Congress, and the 1991 Moscow coup that signaled the end of the Soviet empire. She has launched and hosted two weekly interview shows on public TV.
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We go On the Record with Ms. Agvocate USA, 2024! Sixth-generation cattle farmer Lindsey Jacobs wants us all to grasp where our food comes from and who provides it. We spend a day at the farm with her and lots of cows! -
Geoffrey Danek talks about the joys and challenges of raising goats. -
We talk with Global Refuge president and CEO Krish O’Mara Vignarajah about what will happen to thousands of families who fled Afghanistan. -
The Trump administration has told hundreds of thousands of migrants who fled violence or disasters in Latin America that they can no longer stay in the U.S. We ask a labor leader and a worker what this means in Maryland. -
Trump health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stopped recommending Covid shots for healthy kids and pregnant women. We get perspectives from a University of Maryland expert. -
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Carmen Del Guercio steps down after eight years at helm of Maryland Food Bank. -
Congressman Johnny Olszewski talks about the SNAP benefit realities that could hit if the 'Big Beautiful Bill' passes. -
Some kids lured into child trafficking have picked up clues in pop culture that it’s normal; they don’t realize they’re victims. We talk to an expert helping organize people to prevent and prosecute child trafficking, and offer support to the vulnerable. -
Dr. Jimmy Miller, director of outreach services at Health Care for Homeless, talks about their new Street Medicine initiative.
