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City Dweller

Jared W

In each episode I talk with a city dweller to learn about their perspective on city life.

society & culture places & travel

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00:21:13

Nathan Pinnock-James: Native Londoner and Public...

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2022/10/14

Nathan grew up in the London Borough of Lewisham. As a child, he developed an interest in public transportation. This led him to start the YouTube channel NetworkNathan. He is currently a student at the University of Leeds where he is pursuing a BA in Geography with Transport Studies.

00:25:06

Joanna Moncrieff: Native Londoner and Tour Guide

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2022/09/30

Joanna Moncrieff is a native Londoner who loves to share her knowledge of the city's history as well as its best historic pubs, hidden gardens, unusual museums, quirky shops, and other lesser known treasures. She has been leading guided walks in the City of Westminster, the West End, Clerkenwell, and Islington since 2009. Joanna also leads walks closer to where she lives in Walthamstow and Chingford. A couple of her most popular walks are her Walthamstow walk, ‘From Monoux and Morris to Beer and

00:18:19

Laura Nielsen: Wisconsin Native Living in Chicago and...

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2022/09/16

Laura grew up in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin and now lives in Chicago's Rogers Park Neighborhood. She has a Bachelor's Degree in Music from Ripon College and a Master's Degree in Music Business from Columbia College Chicago. Laura is the Marketing Manager for the Concert Management Office at Northwestern University's Bienen School of Music. Bienen hosts a variety of concerts including student and faculty recitals, student ensembles, and visiting artists.

00:22:25

Kat Nairn: Travel Blogger and Australian Living in...

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2022/09/02

Kat is originally from Perth, Western Australia. She grew up all over the state, from small towns, to farms, to the city. She spent a lot of time exploring the area with her parents and took countless road trips. In 2005, her dad took her on her first overseas trip, to Egypt, and she was hooked with the travel bug.She moved to the United Kingdom in 2013 on a UK Ancestry Visa. Once the excitement of landing in the UK died down, she faced the challenges of finding a job and a place to live, making

00:19:44

Matt Brown: Probably the Most London-Obsessed Person...

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2022/08/19

Matt, the Editor-at-Large of Londonist, is probably the most London-obsessed person in the world, reaching parts of the capital others can’t reach. In the cause of exploring London, he has waded along the buried River Fleet, spent the night in a haunted plague pit, caught a lung infection by climbing Soho’s tallest steeple, and walked along the tracks beneath Leicester Square at 2am. Matt has lived in Blackheath, Borough, Greenwich, Weybridge, West Hampstead, Fortune Green and Chalk Farm. Thanks to

00:26:08

Laurence Brown: Chicago Transplant from the UK and...

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2022/08/05

Laurence grew up in England and became fascinated with the United States at an early age. Along with his wife, he moved to the US in 2008, and they currently live in Chicago. He is the creator of the YouTube channel Lost in the Pond. The title refers to those things, including word differences and cuisines, that were lost in translation when he moved to the United States.

00:25:50

Nick Kindelsperger: Chicago Transplant and Chicago...

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2022/07/22

Nick first made a name for himself as a food writer in 2006 when he co-founded the home cooking blog The Paupered Chef. He went on to be the editor of Grub Street Chicago and founding editor of Serious Eats Chicago. His food writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Newsweek, Epicurious, Baltimore Sun, Serious Eats, Grub Street, New York Magazine, and Tasting Table, among others. Nick joined the Chicago Tribune in 2016 as a food and dining reporter. He and fellow food and dining reporter Louisa

00:17:07

Natalie Moore: Chicago Native, Journalist, and Author

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2022/07/08

Natalie Moore is an award-winning journalist based in Chicago, whose reporting tackles race, housing, economic development, food injustice and violence. Her work has helped shift the way Chicagoans today think about segregation in the region. Natalie’s acclaimed book The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation received the 2016 Chicago Review of Books award for nonfiction and was Buzzfeed’s best nonfiction book of 2016. She is also co-author of The Almighty Black P Stone Nation:

00:15:43

Gail Morse: Brooklyn Transplant and Big Apple Greeter...

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2022/06/24

Gail Morse is the Director of Volunteers for Big Apple Greeter, the world's first free “Welcome Visitor” program. Big Apple Greeter was founded in 1992 and has nearly 300 volunteers who accompany about 5,000 visitors a year to over 100 neighborhoods in all five of New York City's boroughs. Today, there are free Greeter programs in over 120 cities across more than 30 countries.

00:22:45

Eric Rogers: A Chicagoan Passionate about Cities and...

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2022/06/10

Eric Rogers is the Manager of Events and Communications at the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy. He joined the Conservancy staff in early 2020 after six years at the Chicago Architecture Center, where he worked on and ultimately managed the major annual event Open House Chicago. Eric is passionate about exploring cities by bike, transit, and foot, and photographing the built environment, particularly historic and architecturally-significant places. He holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in

00:25:20

Billy Lombardo: Chicago Native, Author, and Teacher

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2022/05/27

Billy Lombardo is the 2011 Nelson Algren Award winner for Fiction. He is the author of four books of fiction – The Logic of a Rose: Chicago Stories, How to Hold a Woman, The Man with Two Arms, and Meanwhile, Roxy Mourns. His novel, How to Hold a Woman was re-issued as Morning Will Come by Tortoise Books in January 2021. A high school English Literature and creative writing teacher for 25 years at The Latin School of Chicago, and for nine years at other Chicago-area high schools, he now runs his own

00:25:59

Wendy Bright: Milwaukee Native, Former Chicagoan, and...

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2022/05/13

Wendy Bright grew up in the Milwaukee area. She has lived in both Milwaukee and Chicago, and she was a tour guide in both cities. Her podcast, Cream City-Windy City explores the connections between Milwaukee and Chicago. Wendy currently lives in Lexington, Kentucky where she works as the Marketing and Communications Manager at Ashland, The Henry Clay Estate, a museum that promotes the legacy of statesman Henry Clay.

00:22:29

Serena: Londoner and Vegetarian and Vegan Food Blogger

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2022/04/29

Serena is a Londoner with a passion for supporting locally owned restaurants. As a vegetarian, she focuses on vegetarian and vegan-friendly spots. On Instagram @serenalikesfood, she shares her restaurant recommendations, along with vegetarian and vegan recipes. Here are her restaurant recommendations: Bubala in Shoreditch Booma in Brixton etch. by Steven Edwards in Brighton Lissome in Dalston Nandine in Camberwell

00:21:52

Justin Kaufmann: Chicago Journalist and Sketch Comedian

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2022/04/15

Justin Kaufmann is a reporter for Axios Chicago and part of the ensemble that created Chicago4Real, a new Twitch channel that features great Chicago content. He's also part of Schadenfreude, a Chicago sketch comedy group. Justin previously worked in Chicago radio, both at WBEZ and at WGN.

00:22:12

Ghian Foreman: Promoter of Development in South Side...

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2022/04/01

Ghian Foreman is the President and CEO of the Emerald South Economic Development Collaborative, a group that works to develop and support South Side communities through a focus on commercial-corridor expansion, sustainable housing, and workforce development. Foreman sits on several boards including serving as President of the Chicago Police Board and member of the Rebuild Foundation. He earned his BS from Florida A&M University, and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business

00:19:07

Ryan Tova Katz: Chicago Artist and Muralist

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2022/03/18

In this episode, I speak with Ryan Tova Katz. Ryan is a Chicago-based artist and muralist. In 2009, she started her first custom art and mural company. She has painted murals in hotels, private homes, schools, restaurants, galleries, orphanages, and on buildings in 9 countries.

00:23:32

Caroline MacMillan: West London Tour Guide and Author

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2022/03/04

In this episode, I speak with Caroline MacMillan. Caroline is a tour guide who offers both group tours and private walks around West London. She has also written multiple books about West London that are part of the Wild About series, including books about Hammersmith and Brook Green, Shepherd's Bush and Askew Road, and Fulham. We talk about why she loves exploring London on foot and giving tours as well as her most memorable experiences as a tour guide.

00:25:09

Elaine Glusac: Chicagoan and Travel Writer

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2022/02/18

In this episode, I speak with Elaine Glusac. Elaine is a freelance travel writer based in Chicago. She has won numerous awards for her work, including the Gold Medal as Travel Journalist of the Year in 2019 from the Society of American Travel Writers, and the Silver Medal as Travel Journalist of the Year in 2018. Her work has appeared in many publications, including the New York Times where she writes the Frugal Traveler column.

00:23:51

Fred Schübbe: Transplant to Hamburg, Germany and...

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2022/02/04

In this episode, I speak with Fred Schübbe. Fred was born in Flensburg, Germany, along the Danish border. He moved to the Hamburg area in 1989, where he lives with his wife and son. For over 25 years, he worked in Human Resources Management. Since 2019, he's been a volunteer greeter for Hamburg Greeters. He's also a project manager for the Worldwide Greeter Communication project that encourages communication among greeters from around the world.

00:18:11

Monica Eng: Fourth Generation Chicagoan and Journalist

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2022/01/21

Monica Eng is reporter for Axios Chicago with a specialty on food, health and the environment. Monica came to Axios from WBEZ where she was a reporter for 8 years. Before that shespent 25 years editing and reporting at the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times. Monica has won multiple writing awards and been nominated for the James Beard Award five times. The daughter of Chinese and Puerto Rican parents, Monica is a fourth generation Chicagoan whose children are fourth generation Chicago Public

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