Alice Daniel
News DirectorA former News Director at KVPR, Alice Daniel created and produced the podcast The Other California with the help of a California Humanities Documentary Grant.
In addition to running the newsroom, she also managed numerous collaborative projects at KVPR including One Small Step and StoryCorps San Joaquin, both of which came out of a partnership with the NPR oral history project, StoryCorps.
Daniel has a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and has worked as both a print and radio journalist. As a former correspondent for KQED’s The California Report, Daniel covered the Central Valley from Stockton to Bakersfield and beyond. In addition to her broadcast and newspaper work, Daniel was a lecturer in the Department of Media, Communications and Journalism at Fresno State for 17 years.
In 2017/2018, Daniel was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Ghana and lived in Accra with her family. She taught print and broadcast journalism to graduate students and assisted them with producing a live radio news show. She also started an oral history project on journalists who worked during Ghana’s transition from a military dictatorship to a democratic republic. A Fulbright Regional Travel Award allowed her to teach journalism seminars at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia in 2018. She worked at KVPR for close to four years before leaving in 2022 to live in Limerick, Ireland for a year.
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A transgender advocate talks about how his drive to serve the community is inspired by his role as a father. Listen to this conversation and more on the podcast.
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We leave last week’s Western Stampede behind but return to the town of Chowchilla to find out more about its history from its Dust Bowl migrants to present day immigrants, including the only Yemeni-American family living in Chowchilla. We also meet the 84-year-old grandson of one of the town’s earliest white settlers. His grandparents sold 150 horses and left the cold weather of North Dakota to start a dairy farm in Chowchilla. Their 1910 house still stands. Like many towns back then, Chowchilla had racist housing covenants that kept certain groups of people out. But just a couple of miles from town was a place where Black people could actually buy property. At one point, the Black settlement of Fairmead had the largest single dairy in the state. We find out more about Fairmead’s past and what it can teach us today.
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On this week’s Valley Edition: A garden in Chowchilla brings hope to inmates at the Central California Women’s Facility. Listen to these stories and more in the podcast above.
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On this week’s Valley Edition: A garden in Chowchilla brings hope to inmates at the Central California Women’s Facility. Listen to these stories and more in the podcast above.
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The town of Chowchilla has an annual cattle drive that goes straight through the center of town to mark the beginning of the Chowchilla Western Stampede, an event that includes team roping and barrel racing. This episode explores the history of the stampede and introduces listeners to an 87-year-old rodeo star who has competed in the stampede since the early 1960s. She also tells us about her life as a stunt woman in Hollywood where she doubled for movie stars like Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton. And a horse trainer reflects on his 50-year career.
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On this week’s Valley Edition: In Tulare County, we take you on a tour of Woodlake’s cannabis industry, where we smell-test some very unusual products. Listen to this story and more in the podcast above.
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On this week’s Valley Edition: In Tulare County, we take you on a tour of Woodlake’s cannabis industry, where we smell-test some very unusual products. Listen to this story and more in the podcast above.
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The town of Woodlake doesn’t have a stoplight but it does have a 13-acre botanical garden where kids learn about agriculture and earn their community service hours. Locals Manuel and Olga Jimenez created and designed the garden to improve their town and give kids a chance to work in the dirt. This episode also takes listeners to Dora’s restaurant where Mariachi singer and owner Dora Orozco serves Mexican food and entertains guests with her songs. And we delve into why the city embraced cannabis businesses ahead of other towns in the valley. Jennifer Malone explains the work she is doing to keep her Wukchumni language and culture alive.
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We introduce a new podcast from KVPR, the Other California. Listen to this conversation and more in the podcast above.
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We introduce a new podcast from KVPR, the Other California. Listen to this conversation and more in the podcast above.