Olivia Ebertz

Metro Desk Reporter

Olivia 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.

oebertz@ripr.org

Recently published
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.