Susan Davis
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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. Her 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.

Katy Barron
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Interim Managing Editor

Katy Barron joined The State Of Things in February 2006. After graduating from Davidson College she began a career in corporate consulting, which she quickly abandoned for the much less lucrative reporting life. She spent four years at The National Journal Group in Washington D.C., covering the executive branch for Government Executive magazine's web site, GovExec.com. She did a brief stint as a Texan from 2002-2005, working as an online producer, columnist and features reporter for the Austin American-Statesman. She returned to her native North Carolina in 2005. The last time she was employed in the Triangle, she was in charge of putting croutons on salads and adding cheese to chili at Spanky’s on Franklin Street, also known as down expediting. She thinks this job is slightly more rewarding.

Lindsay Thomas
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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.

Olympia Stone
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Producer

Olympia Stone joined The State of Things in September 2007. She graduated from Barnard College a long time ago and worked in the blood-sucking world of television for over ten years before finding her way to the promised land of public radio. She has helped produce documentaries on topics as varied as Boston’s Big Dig, the drug Ecstasy, Henry Kissinger, and alleged mob boss Whitey Bulger. She also worked on the Emmy award-winning art series, Greater Boston Arts, for WGBH. Olympia started Floating Stone Productions in 2001, and her first film, The Collector: Allan Stone’s Life in Art, was completed in 2007—mostly in her attic.

Robin Copley
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Broadcast Producer

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).