One school year, many education stories

Joellen Easton
Partners Manager
Public Insight Network

This 25-minute radio documentary was the culmination of a 9-month reporting project following teachers, students and administrators to learn how budget cuts are affecting public schools. Both families in the series came either directly or indirectly from OPB’s Public Insight Network. More at opb.org

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Joellen Easton Partners Manager
Public Insight Network

Joellen Easton builds partnerships with newsrooms, grows the source base, leads collaboration, innovates around the toolset, embeds empathy in PIN technology and newsrooms, and spreads the gospel.

As partners manager she leads our training and support team. This means she ensures that partner journalists learn best practices and deploy PIN effectively, recruits and brings on new news organizations, represents users in the PIN tools development process, leads evaluation efforts, and develops academic partnerships and course modules.

Her background is in anthropology, and she has produced for WGBH, PRI's The World, and freelance. She first worked with PIN at Marketplace as a PIN analyst for four years. She is degreed from Tufts and MIT.