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Special Series: Our Land

LA Johnson
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NPR

Over the next several months, special correspondent Melissa Block and producer Elissa Nadworny are reporting from communities large and small to capture how people's identity is shaped by where they live. What's important in folks' lives? How does a community's identity evolve over time? What does the future look like to the people in that place?

And we need your help! What places should we go? What communities should we pay attention to? Who are the characters we should spend time with?

Do you know a school teacher in a small village in Alaska? Or a waterfowl hunter in the lakes and marshes of Maine? How about an ER doctor in Chicago? Someone who can be our tour guide to a place off the beaten path — or on it.

Sky's the limit — we're looking to explore our land from coast to coast.

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Elissa Nadworny reports on all things college for NPR, following big stories like unprecedented enrollment declines, college affordability, the student debt crisis and workforce training. During the 2020-2021 academic year, she traveled to dozens of campuses to document what it was like to reopen during the coronavirus pandemic. Her work has won several awards including a 2020 Gracie Award for a story about student parents in college, a 2018 James Beard Award for a story about the Chinese-American population in the Mississippi Delta and a 2017 Edward R. Murrow Award for excellence in innovation.