anchorage, alaska, united states
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Claim your profileHope McKenney is a public radio news director, reporter, producer and host based in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska.Born in rural Northern California, Hope started as a reporter and producer at KZYX in Mendocino County. She then worked at WBAI in New York and KQED in San Francisco.In 2019, she moved to Unalaska/Dutch Harbor, Alaska, to work as a public radio reporter for Alaska's Energy Desk and KUCB — the westernmost public radio newsroom in the country.Hope has lived, worked and filed stories from California, New York, Bolivia, Peru, Cuba and Alaska. She is interested in fishing, rural and agricultural issues, climate change, immigration, incarceration and Indigenous sovereignty. She is a 2015 graduate of Barnard College of Columbia University.






Performing Arts at Instituto Superior De AgronomiaGraduated: 2017
Bachelors, Anthropology, Latin at Barnard CollegeGraduated: 2015