Jillian Forstadt

About

Jillian Forstadt is the education reporter at 90.5 WESA, Pittsburgh's NPR News station. Her work focuses on the intersection of education, equity and social justice, shedding light on Pennsylvania's school systems. Jillian’s award-winning reporting includes investigations into suburban book ban debates, student discipline and misused public health funds in communities facing air pollution. Before moving to Pittsburgh, she covered affordable housing, homelessness and rural health care at WSKG Public Radio in Binghamton, New York. Her reporting regularly appears across Pennsylvania’s network of public radio stations and NPR’s flagship national shows.