Jesse King
Hudson Valley Bureau Chief/Host, 51%Jesse King is the host of WAMC's national program on women's issues, "51%" and the station's bureau chief in the Hudson Valley. She has also produced episodes of the WAMC podcast "A New York Minute In History."
A graduate of SUNY Oneonta, King first joined the WAMC newsroom as an intern in September 2018. She grew up an avid writer and radio-nerd in Apalachin, New York, and spent much of her college years managing WONY 90.9 FM, contributing to the student-run podcast, "Oneonta Voices," and interning with Phoenix FM in Dublin, Ireland. She holds a B.A. in Music Industry and Mass Communications, and plays the fiddle in her free time.
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Dutchess County Executive Sue Serino delivered her first state of the county address Thursday night.
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New York Congressman Pat Ryan joined cleanup crews in Cornwall Saturday to call on telecom companies like Verizon and AT&T to disclose and clean up toxic, lead-sheathed cables across the country.
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On this week’s 51%, our associate producer Jody Cowan catches up with NASA astronaut, engineer, and chemist Tracy Caldwell Dyson ahead of her third mission to the International Space Station this month.
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An interview with Poughkeepsie Mayor Yvonne Flowers about her visit to Washington D.C. for President Biden's State of the Union address.
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An interview with Jonathan Becker, executive vice president and vice president of academic affairs at Bard College, about a new report detailing the state of on-campus poll sites in New York.
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On the latest 51%, we speak with the editors of Fighting Mad, a new book of essays reimagining the abortion rights — or rather, reproductive justice — movement.
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New York U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand pulled together a bipartisan group of lawmakers in Dutchess County Saturday to call on the House to pass a bill aimed at cracking down on illegal fentanyl dealers.
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On this week's 51%, we kick off Women's History Month speaking with the directors and flight attendants behind PBS' new American Experience film Fly With Me.
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The city of Hudson is hosting a free screening of a documentary on universal basic income Wednesday evening as part of an effort to promote its own UBI pilot program.
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Twenty years ago, 27 LGBTQ+ couples met at a park in New Paltz, New York to do two things: get married, and break the law. The act of civil disobedience tested New York’s marriage laws at a time when same-sex marriage was hotly debated, but still largely illegal in the U.S. On Sunday, friends and advocates reunited to remember those that made it all possible – and, for one couple, to get married again.