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Alicia Zuckerman
Under the Sun Co-Creator/Co-Senior Producer/Co-Host, The Florida Roundup Producer
Under the Sun, The Florida Roundup, Jazz Roots
Alicia began making radio as a 7-year-old in rural upstate New York using appropriated material from Casey Kasem's American Top 40. Twenty years later, she began her real-world radio career as a reporter for NPR's On the Media. Her reporting has aired on National Public Radio, Public Radio International, and American Public Media. Alicia also produces WLRN's weekly news program, The Florida Roundup, and "Jazz Roots" on WLRN, featuring conversations with renowned jazz artists. Before coming to Miami, she covered arts, culture, and breaking news for WNYC in New York, where she reported on Carnegie Hall, puppet opera, arts education in the South Bronx, authentic Hungarian strudel, two presidential elections, and nuclear power. She was also the lead classical music and dance reporter at New York magazine for six years. She has written frequently on the arts for the Miami Herald. Her online reporting has appeared in the New York Times online, the Huffington Post, and the Jewish culture magazine, Tablet. Alicia holds a B.A. from the University at Albany (New York) where she studied music and English, and a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Her awards include a Gracie Allen Award presented by The Foundation of American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT) for her radio documentary about New York accents, as well as a first place 2008 Society of Professional Journalists Sunshine State Award for "Cuba: the Developing Story" on WLRN's public affairs special, Perspectives. She sings alto with the Master Chorale of South Florida. She lives with her husband Mark and their aptly-named orange cat, Sunny. Alicia loves café con leche and Law & Order and (all iterations), and would really like to dance with Ellen.
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