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The SOT Staff
Susan Davis
sdavis
wunc.org
Senior Producer
Susan Davis joined the staff of The State of Things in April 2004, having moved with her husband and two children to Chapel Hill from Washington D.C. Susan was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. She's a graduate of Reed College in Portland, Oregon and has an MFA in poetry from the Writing Programs at The University of Houston in Texas.
Susan's radio career began in the early 1990s as a production assistant at Marketplace. She went on to produce and manage the documentary series Soundprint and to produce and edit for All Things Considered, Talk of the Nation and the National Desk at National Public Radio.
She's the author of a collection of poetry "Gathering Sound" (Fairweather Books/2006) and is the co-editor, with Gina Hyams of the anthology "Searching For Mary Poppins: Women Write about the Intense Relationship Between Mothers and Nannies" (Hudson Street Press/2006). So far, her favorite things about North Carolina are: banana pudding, Eno River State Park, the rampant use of the phrase, "get with," Oak Island, the independent bookstores and the generosity of the tooth fairy.
Lindsay Thomas
lthomaswunc.org
Producer
Lindsay Foster Thomas joined The State of Things in August 2006. She began her experience in radio while a media major at Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia.
After graduating, she returned to her native Atlanta, Georgia where she worked as a producer on WAOK-AM, the city's only African-American news/talk radio station. She continued her career as a morning drive producer at WVEE-FM until the lure of higher education called her back to the classroom.
She recently earned her masters degree in journalism from Columbia University and is excited to return to the South to work in public radio. She prefers animated television shows, is professionally bad at karaoke, and will give undivided attention to anything concerning the 80's decade.
Shawn Wen
swen wunc.org
Associate Producer
Shawn Wen joined the staff of The State of Things in March 2012. She is a writer and multimedia artist. Her radio work has aired on This American Life, Studio 360, Marketplace, Freakonomics, and Rhode Island Public Radio.
Her video work has screened at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the Carpenter Center for Visual Art at Harvard University, and the Camden International Film Festival. Shawn is the recipient of the Royce Fellowship and the Third Coast Scholarship. She graduated from Brown University with a degree in Literary Arts.
Alex Granados
agranadoswunc.org
Producer
Alex Granados joined The State of Things in July 2010. He got his start in radio as an intern for the show in 2005 and loved it so much that after trying his hand as a government reporter, reader liaison, features, copy and editorial page editor at a small newspaper in Manassas, Virginia, he returned to WUNC.
When he's not producing for The State of Things, Alex also writes an education blog for a tutoring company in Northern Virginia, talks about North Raleigh news in a weekly column for the News & Observer and does freelance radio work. His first novel, Cemetery Plot, is being published by Crushing Hearts and Black Butterfly Publishing in October.
Alex received a degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also has a minor in philosophy, which basically means that he used to think he was really smart but realized he wasn’t in time to switch majors.
Fishing, reading science fiction, watching crazy movies, walking his dog Zoey and hugging random animals are some of his favorite hobbies. Alex still doesn’t know what he wants to be when he grows up, but he is holding out for astronaut.
Robin Copley
rcopleywunc.org
Engineer
Robin Copley has been with The State of Things since 2001. She hails from Rocky Mount and earned a degree from East Carolina University in Greenville. On the show, she manages everything "technical", from micing a six-piece string band to making sure Frank sounds clear and audible (in itself a full-time job).
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