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Laura Starecheskiindependent radio producerAbout MyselfLaura Starecheski is based in the Bronx and produces audio for public radio, magazines, museums and other outlets. She has produced for The World, Studio 360, and WBEZ's Chicago Matters series, among others. She won a Third Coast Silver Award for Best Documentary in 2006 for her story "Goat on a Cow", which aired on WNYC's Radio Lab. In 2009, Laura directed North Country Public Radio's Common Wealth, Common Wisdom project, which united rural teenagers with Depression-era elders in an intergenerational multimedia workshop. You can see more at ncpr.org/cwcw. Making a DifferenceI'm wrapping up production on a series of radio stories about mental health in New York's immigrant communities for The World and Latino USA. Next, I plan to report on PTSD in Latino veterans returning from war. I have an MA in American Studies from the City University of New York, for which I wrote about mental illness, culture and what it means to "come out" as a person with schizophrenia in the US. Laura Starecheski's Blog
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