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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The public health advocate joins us for our monthly conversation about the continuing COVID pandemic, E. coli worries in West Baltimore's water, and other important public health issues. -
DPW Director Jason Mitchell and Dist. 9 City Councilman John T. Bullock discuss the E. coli-related boil-water advisory for parts of West Baltimore. -
The Pulitzer Prize-winning Irish poet and editor discusses his work with Paul McCartney compiling his lyrics - and memories - from 60 years of songwriting. -
The esteemed Hopkins historian chronicles the extraordinary Black women who've led the 200-year struggle for equality and voting rights in America. -
In Dr. Belew's book of essays, she and other leading experts examine the rise and growth of the White power movement in America. -
In her latest book, the U Penn scholar of law, race and gender calls for the dismantling of the US child welfare system, which she says is undermining Black families. -
Former US Attorney General Eric Holder discusses his new history of the nation's harrowing - and continuing - struggle for voting equality. -
In her latest book, Hood College historian Dr. Terry Anne Scott examines how racial lynchings were popular public exhibitions in late 19th- & early 20th-century Texas. -
The veteran political writer discusses his new book about Donald Trump's Washington, and the moral collapse of a major American political party. -
The acclaimed writer discusses his tale of a group of Black people striving to find love and friendship while enslaved in the Antebellum South.
