Ann Heppermann, Producer, is a Peabody award-winning reporter and producer. Her work has aired on numerous public radio shows including This American Life, 99% Invisible, Radiolab and many others. In 2010 Heppermann was named a Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellow, reporting on pre-teen eating disorders and perinatal depression. In 2011 she was named a United States Artists Rockefeller Fellow along with Kara Oehler honoring the decades-long work at creating innovative audio works. She teaches narrative radio journalism at Sarah Lawrence College and in NYU’s Literary Reportage program. She also produces Slate’s Culture Gabfest and DoubleX Gabfest.
Standing in the empty parking lot of a Subway store in Springfield, Illinois, Don Norton unfolds a ragged cardboard poster and holds it just below his chest. The sign, which reads, ‘Please help any way you can,’ is so old it looks like it’s about to dissolve.
