Ariel Lavery
Producer, In The NoCoAriel Lavery grew up in Louisville, Colorado and has returned to the Front Range after spending over 25 years moving around the country. Ariel graduated Magna Cum Laude with her BFA from the University of Colorado Boulder (2007) and received her MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (2013).
She served as the Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Watkins College of Art Design and Film in Nashville until 2018. She left her teaching job to begin her family and quickly found her way into the podcast world. With a grant from PRX, she co-created the podcast Middle of Everywhere for WKMS, Murray State University鈥檚 NPR member station.
Ariel won Public Media Journalism awards in every season she produced for Middle of Everywhere. Her most recent series project is "The Burn Scar", published with The Modern West podcast. In it, she chronicles two years of her family鈥檚 financial and emotional struggle following the loss of her childhood home in the Marshall Fire.
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The Stanley Hotel has been a cultural landmark in Estes Park for over a century. The hotel was sold in May to an unusual team of investors and a state cultural office. We hear about how this partnership came together, and what the future holds for this piece of Colorado history. -
A new bill co-sponsored by Sen. John Hickenlooper is designed to speed up wildfire prevention efforts across the country. But a few measures in the bill have some environmental groups concerned. -
A group of researchers at CSU are celebrating a decade of raising a herd of genetically pure bison. Those bison have been transferred over the years to tribes and wildlife organizations around the West. We hear from the researcher who鈥檚 been leading this project and raising the herd. -
The ACLU of Colorado thinks the state鈥檚 history of camping culture should protect people experiencing homelessness when they sleep outdoors. Currently, the city of Boulder can ticket or jail people for using shelter in public places. But the ACLU of Colorado wants a judge to end that policy. -
Commercial air travel might be the safest way to get around 鈥� yet millions of Americans have a fear of flying. With the summer travel season about to get underway, we sat down with an MSU Denver psychologist who specializes in helping people who are afraid to fly. She offered some strategies to help you or a loved one take that flight you鈥檝e been fretting over. -
If you鈥檝e ever dreamed about picking a sweet, fuzzy peach right off your very own Palisade peach tree 鈥� well, we have some good news and some bad news. While it is possible to grow a peach tree on the Front Range, plant experts from the CSU extension say there are a lot of pitfalls to be aware of before you plant one. -
It鈥檚 tough to confront uncomfortable emotions like anxiety or shame. A Denver artist has created a new exhibit that she hopes will encourage visitors to do just that 鈥� with the help of some giant, cuddly monsters she created entirely out of yarn. We hear about her exhibit at the Denver Art Museum 鈥� and the psychology behind it. -
If you have a drip tray under your fridge that鈥檚 filled with orange goo, you might have an organism living with you that science wants to know about. A researcher at Colorado State University is collecting samples from people鈥檚 homes that he thinks could hold solutions to climate change and pollution. -
Rock climbing without ropes comes with risks and rewards. This climber set out to crunch the numbersBoulder is a hot spot for rock climbing... and many climbers engage in something even riskier called 鈥榮crambling.鈥� This involves climbing huge rock faces without using ropes. Today on In the NoCo you鈥檒l hear from a Boulder man who dug into a century鈥檚 worth of data around scrambling accidents 鈥� and it changed how he approaches his favorite hobby as a result. -
The Trump administration wants to cut federal funding to NPR and PBS. So what does that mean for local stations like 萝莉少女 and The Colorado Sound? Today on In The NoCo, we try to offer some answers. It鈥檚 a candid conversation with 萝莉少女鈥檚 Chief Audience and Content Officer, Mike Arnold.
