Olivia Ebertz
ContributorOlivia Ebertz comes to The Public’s Radio from WNYC, where she was a producer for Morning Edition. Prior to that, she spent two years reporting for KYUK in Bethel, Alaska, where she wrote a lot about how the warming climate is forcing local Indigenous communities to change their traditional lifeways.
Prior to her career as a journalist, Olivia worked in film. Her documentaries have screened at festivals worldwide.
Olivia likes to pursue stories inspired by questions from community members.
Ella habla español, lei parla italiano, и она говорит по-русски.
-
In using strict conservation methods to protect its finite water resources, Jamestown has created a system where some residents lack clean drinking water and homes they can't sell, rent, or live in
-
Nurses, mental health workers and other employees at a psychiatric hospital in Providence have been on strike with their union, the Service Employees International Union local 1199, since early Thursday morning -
The Seaview Avenue residents have been fighting for years to get water from the town after their wells turned dry and brackish -
Historians at Brown University and Tribal members from across New England are launching a project they hope will bring awareness to the historic enslavement of Indigenous people in North America -
Brown Environmental Studies and Sociology professor J. Timmons Roberts says the federal government’s actions have rendered the school a very different place than just a year ago -
More extreme weather patterns and aging infrastructure could hamper the Prudence Island Water District’s ability to provide its customers with fresh drinking water.
-
The nonpartisan demonstration focused on calling out billionaires. Organizers said their aims were to put power back in the hands of people -
The Providence mayor is proposing to increase property taxes and other city revenue in order to fill the budget gap left by a settlement with the state over the city’s school department -
The investigation previously covered activities at the Warren Alpert Medical School and is now expanded to the entire university from the period of Oct. 7, 2023 to the present -
The news comes a few days after the Rhode Island School of Design announced the State Department had revoked one of its international student’s visas
