Ann Lopez
Senior Content ProducerAnn is an editor and senior content producer with WSHU.
A native of New York City, she has more than 20 years of experience as a journalist and audio producer. She started in print with Ms. Magazine and Newsday. She broke into radio at WGBH in Boston as a producer and studio director for the daily international news program, The World.
Ann is the founding producer for WSHU's weekly talk show, The Full Story. As a senior content producer, Ann works with the hosts of Morning Edition and All Things Considered to produce interviews that focus on local topics and issues that our listeners care about.
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It’s Oscar weekend, and we're preparing for the spectacle with an interview with Bruce Vilanch. The Emmy Award-winning comedy writer, songwriter, and actor spoke with WSHU's All Things Considered host Randye Kaye to talk about his career, his life, and his new memoir, It Seemed Like A Bad Idea At The Time. -
Music has long been a way for expressing resistance to oppression, to grieve in times of tragedy and to celebrate the human spirit overcoming persecution. The Sacred Heart University Wind Ensemble presents a concert featuring Festive Overture by Dimitri Shostakovich, Fables of Faubus by Charles Mingus and Stonewall: 1969 by Randall Standridge. -
Musician and drag queen Thorgy Thor reflects on her time as a young violist growing up on Long Island. The Ronkonkoma native would eventually take her talents to Connecticut, studying music at the University of Hartford. -
WSHU staff, past and present, reminisce about working with Tom Kuser and the impressive legacy he leaves. Thank you, Tom! -
The right to vote in the United States was won through struggle. After the Civil War, Connecticut considered changing its constitution to grant Black residents the right to vote. The service of the 29th Connecticut Colored Regiment inspired them. -
History is made up of stories. Family stories of the people who shaped Connecticut and the country.Some stories are celebrated while others are left to languish in the shadows. Here we share one family story that's not often told—the story of the Lathrops. -
ChamberQUEER operates as a collective of performers, composers, and creators, hosting events like Open Mic Nights and Sight Reading Parties to networking opportunities, performances and workshops. Suzanne Bona speaks with 3 of ChamberQUEER's founding members - Jules Biber (cello), Danielle Buonaiuto (soprano), Brian Mummert (baritone). -
Quinnipiac! The name is well-known here in Connecticut: the river, the trail, the roads, the University, and of course the people. But how much is really known about the first people who settled along the southern Connecticut coastline? The Full Story host, Tom Kuser, spoke with historian and archeologist Jim Powers to learn more about the people of the Dawnland. -
The minimum wage in Connecticut is now $15 an hour. But it doesn’t end there. The minimum wage law allows for yearly increases to keep up with inflation. Will this new adjustment help to workers in the state earn a living wage? -
The minimum wage in Connecticut went up this year. It’s now $15.69 per hour. That’s thanks to the state’s first-ever economic indicator adjustment which is linked to the federal employment cost index.