Elisa Baena
Elisa Baena is a former associate producer for Sundial. Long before starting her career at WLRN and the weekly public radio show Latino USA, Elisa’s abuela prophesized that she would become a writer because of her over-the-top storytelling style as a child.
As a WLRN intern, she co-hosted an episode of The Sunshine Economy with Tom Hudson and her first radio feature aired nationally on All Things Considered. At Latino USA, she produced episodes about chisme, the inimitable Afro-Cuban singer La Lupe and her community’s response to the Surfside condo collapse one year later.
Elisa has a bachelor’s in English from the University of Miami. She was a writer and section editor for the student magazine Distraction, while her fiction and literary criticism earned undergraduate prizes at UM. But best of all, she got to see Shakira and Bad Bunny up close when her college dance team participated in the 2020 Super Bowl Halftime Show at the Hard Rock Stadium.
A Miami native and Cuban American, Elisa began listening to WLRN at 16 when she started driving a hand-me-down Mini Cooper to school. She is proud to work at the station that shaped her view of journalism and hopes to keep producing stories that honor her community and culture.
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SundialDawn Atkins is a principal dancer with Miami City Ballet. She tells us about her career, MCB’s 2023-2024 season and her performance as the lead roles of Dew Drop and Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker this month.
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Calle 13's Eduardo Cabra is no longer just producing behind the scenes: he’s collaborating, singing, rapping. He tells WLRN what’s new — and what’s next for him.
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SundialEduardo Cabra who produced the sound for the three-time Grammy-winning Puerto Rican band, Calle 13, is showing us the sound of his voice.
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SundialCarlos Frías is joined by director Gladys Ramírez. She’s the executive director of City Theatre in Miami where she's directing the Miami debut of the play "La Gringa" at the Adrienne Arsht Center.
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SundialGuest host Kate Payne is joined by the local group The Latin Divos. The Cuban trio takes Latin pop, traditional opera and timeless classics and makes them their own.
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SundialFereshteh Toosi is a Miami-based interdisciplinary artist who recently launched an interactive audio project called “Voice Memos for the Future.” The project discusses Miami residents' shared stories and thoughts about the future in South Florida. They tell us how nature has inspired their life’s work.
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SundialAll the things Chris Renois suffered helped make him a better comic. He is a stand-up comedian and actor from South Florida. He recently starred in the indie film “Mountains.” It won a special award at the Tribeca Film Festival — and Chris’ acting is a big reason why.
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SundialBaby B Strings is a quartet that performs classical and pop music in unconventional spaces. They take the Beatles to the concert hall and bring Bach to the beach. They join Sundial host Carlos Frías us for a jam session.
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WLRN environmental editor Jenny Staletovich and Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Patrick Farrell talk about what it was like to wade through the muck of the Everglades to check on the decades-long battle to make the River of Grass work as nature intended.
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SundialWe listen to the part of the first episode of Bright Lit Place, a new WLRN podcast distributed by the NPR Network. It was reported by WLRN's environment editor Jenny Staletovich. We also hear behind-the-scenes stories from Jenny and Patrick Farrell, the Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer who worked on the project.
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Sundial host, Carlos Frías, spoke with author Carl Hiaasen before a live audience at the Miami Book Fair. They talked about his new book, "Wrecker," and growing up in Florida.
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SundialSundial host, Carlos Frías, spoke with author Carl Hiaasen before a live audience at the Miami Book Fair over the weekend. They talked about his new book, "Wrecker," and growing up in Florida.