O Mckenney

About

Hope 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.