Fellows & Editors
Megan Verlee
- Trip:
- Fellows Fall 2011
- Affiliation:
- Colorado Public Radio
- Country:
- Ethiopia
- Year:
- 2011
Megan Verlee is a general assignment reporter for Colorado Public Radio, where she's covered everything from the state politics and wildfires to energy development and urban chickens. Verlee's reporting has aired on numerous national outlets, including “Marketplace” and NPR’s “All Things Considered,” and she's appeared as a guest on “Talk of the Nation” and the “Newshour” on PBS. She started her radio career in high school, working with the non-profit group Youth Radio in Berkeley, California.
After earning a BA in Sociology from Columbia University, Verlee spent several years as a producer and editor at NPR, where she participated in coverage of the September 11th attacks and the start of the war in Iraq. She's also reported for public radio stations in Alabama and North Carolina.
Follow a live feed of her tweets, articles, and reports from Ethiopia.
Stories
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How Do Christians, Muslims and Rastafarians in Ethiopia Coexist?
As a 2011 IRP Fellow, Megan Verlee originally traveled to Ethiopia to learn more about why a country that she thought was managing to be a multi-religious society seemed to have growing conflicts. ...
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Winning the Visa Lottery
All week we've been hearing stories reporter Megan Verlee found in Ethiopia that have a connection to our state. Today, for our final piece in the series, we're turning that around, and...
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A Charitable Retirement: Older Peace Corps Volunteers
Colorado prides itself on being the kind of state that attracts, and nurtures, adventurous souls. So maybe it's no coincidence that CU and CSU send more graduates into the Peace Corps than...
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Abel Ayelew: Overcoming Disability in Ethiopia
The first time I met Abel Ayelew was in a judo class I was helping teach. Blind people in Ethiopia aren't encouraged to be independent or do much, so he'd never really...
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From Colorado to Ethiopia
Last fall, reporter Megan Verlee traveled to Ethiopia on a fellowship through the International Reporting Project (IRP). While that country is half a world away from this state, she managed to find...
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Denver Cafe: Home Away From Home
How is this for surreal? I stepped off the plane at Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa prepared for five weeks of adventure in just about the most foreign country I can...
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Graying of the Peace Corps
Peace Corps volunteer Keith Keyser is one busy man. He's built a chicken house to employ women with HIV; helped start a school library; designed a medical records database; and today...
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Alternative Pilgrimage Destination for Ethiopians
Millions of Muslims are in Saudi Arabia right now, participating in the annual pilgrimage known as the Hajj. You probably already know that the main destination for the Hajj is the holy...
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Rastafarians Make It Life’s Goal to Settle in Ethiopia — But the Welcome Isn’t Always Warm
Rastafarian artist Bandi Payne leads visitors through the jungle-like garden that surrounds his house in Shashamane, Ethiopia, pointing out the many trees he's planted in his two decades here. "That's guava, my...
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