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Foundation Highlights

  • The team that runs the GBH Studio at the Boston Public Library (BPL) is ramping up its activities, experimenting with new formats and loving every minute of it. Last year, they produced 120 events that drew 5,000 attendees. This year, they’re aiming to attract 7,000. We chatted with Sandra López Burke, managing director of community and government relations, and Evelyn Brito, studio manager and event producer, who make up the team along with intern Areta Odiah.
  • Mária Telkes came to the U.S. in 1932 with a driving ambition: to invent ways to harness and store the power of the sun.
  • NOVA, GBH’s flagship science multimedia program and the most popular primetime science series on American television, is tapping the powerful reach of public media, along with the widespread trust the program has earned, to shift the conversation on climate change from one that is often defeatist to another infused with positive solutions.
  • Flying an airplane, exploring pirate caves 一 these are just part of another workday adventure for the team that produces GBH’s The Curiosity Desk, now in its second season. This New England Emmy Award-winning YouTube series dives into everyday mysteries hidden in plain sight, often requested by viewers to investigate. This season has taken the team to some very unlikely places. In an exclusive behind-the-scenes interview, team members revealed that some of their escapades have been so intimidating that they have had to conquer their fears before getting started.
  • It’s a sweaty, surprising and energizing job to be a wombat for a day. Just ask GBH-ers Ali Fernandes, Rebecca Ferullo and Rori Miller, who volunteered to dress up as one during the debut week of Work It Out Wombats!, GBH’s new children’s program. In early March, the three—all part of GBH’s Creative team—took turns taking on the city dressed as Zeke, the youngest marsupial brother of Malik and Zadie, grandchild of Super and the keeper of Snout the stuffed animal.
  • Ten dynamic women lead all of GBH’s national programs. Women’s History Month is the perfect time to sample some of their latest episodes and films, which capture the experiences, successes and ongoing challenges of women around the world.
  • As the massive and much publicized anti-Vietnam War protests were gaining momentum across the U.S. in 1969, a secret game of brinksmanship was playing out in the inner chambers of the White House.
  • Greg Ferrisi, the newest host at CRB Classical 99.5, discovered his love of music as a teenager riding in the back of his mom’s station wagon as he listened to 80s soft rock.
  • Four decades ago, the internet was born but most people had never heard of it. That same year FRONTLINE debuted with 'The Unauthorized History of the NFL', the first of nearly 800 investigations that would hold powerful people, companies, institutions and systems to account.
  • When Jonathan Isaac Jackson set out to make the film Big Chief, Black Hawk, he wanted to break out of the “box” of typical documentaries about New Orleans. He took a deep dive into the world of Mardi Gras Masking Indians, whose culture struggles to survive amid gentrification and changing demographics. The film premieres on February 16 at 8pm on GBH WORLD.