Vice President of Program Development, Report for America

Rachel Rohr

Rachel is Report for America's Vice President of Program Development, overseeing all training programs within Report for America, as well as working with corps members on their service projects, which often involve youth media. She is a journalist, editor, podcast producer and digital strategist.

She has worked as managing editor of The GroundTruth Project and managing producer of the GroundTruth podcast, where her work received awards including a National Edward R. Murrow Award and an Online Journalism Award. She was a public radio journalist for several years, including running the digital side of the NPR show Here & Now. Rachel was a 2018-19 Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan, where she focused on new approaches to news and media literacy for teenagers.

She’s an alumna of the 2016 ONA-Poynter Leadership Academy for Women in Digital Media. Rachel started her journalism career as a local newspaper reporter. Her past adventures include living on a small sailboat and tour guiding at the Vatican. Rachel is based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Season 6 |Episode 6

War Children

A year after the city of Mosul was liberated from ISIS rule, kids across Iraq are not alright....

Nov 22, 2018

Season 6 |Episode 5

Whatever happened to Zika?

Before Hurricane Maria, the Zika crisis was already pushing Puerto Rico’s health care system to the limit. Then...

Nov 08, 2018

Season 6 |Episode 4

The dancing ghosts of Duffy’s Cut

When Bill and Frank Watson were kids, their grandfather told them a ghost story. Decades later, they discovered the...

Oct 25, 2018

Season 6 |Episode 3

Hope (and contraband) in a bottle

On a South Korean island just eight miles from the shores of North Korea, Jung Gwang-il is trying...

Oct 11, 2018

Season 6 |Episode 2

Refugees Lost in Translation

Three refugees — from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq — are working as interpreters for other refugees coming into...

Sep 27, 2018

Season 6 |Episode 1

Unheard in Appalachia

This season of the GroundTruth Podcast opens with Unheard in Appalachia, part of Crossing the Divide, a project...

Sep 20, 2018

Back row: Mahlia Posey, Eric Bosco, Gabriel Sanchez, Rachel Cramer and Brittany Greeson are the reporting fellows for Crossing the Divide. In front: Ben Brody and Qainat Khan are the field producers for the project. (Photo by Rachel Rohr/GroundTruth)

Announcements

Add your voice to our reporting road trip

On WGBH and The GroundTruth Project's reporting road trip, Crossing the Divide, we’re exploring the issues that...

Aug 28, 2017

Environment

A lesson on climate change from science fiction

In September 2012, I drafted an email to my book club with the subject line “Damn near ruined...

May 24, 2016