Audrey Nelson
ReporterBorn in Massachusetts, raised in Washington, and educated at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, Audrey Nelson is a lifelong public radio nerd. She worked as a freelance reporter in Seattle before moving to Spokane in 2026. Her work has been featured on KNKX Public Radio, Vox Media’s Today, Explained, and BBC World Service’s The Food Chain. When not reporting, Audrey enjoys playing basketball, writing fiction, and collecting dangly earrings.
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Meacham, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and scholar, will speak at Whitworth University’s President’s Leadership Forum tonight. -
Plus, Spokane County Fire District 9 is asking voters to approve a levy lid lift and a bond on this November's ballot. And the city of Spokane will provide free asbestos testing for wildfire survivors whose insurance doesn't cover the service. -
The exhibit, at Spokane’s Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, doesn’t shy away from what churches and missionaries left in their wake. -
Plus, a new program gives low-income households a zero-down, zero-interest home loan. Odds and ends on wildfires in Washington, including the damage assessments.
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Hope Squad is a national program that helps students support struggling peers. It’s been almost four years since advocates first brought the program to Spokane-area schools. -
Plus, Spokane County residents still rank homelessness and public safety as central concerns. And a proposed Washington state bill would ban transgender athletes from girls’ high school sports. New polling suggests it could pass in November.
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Plus, Spokane County residents still rank homelessness and public safety as central concerns. And a proposed Washington state bill would ban transgender athletes from girls’ high school sports. New polling suggests it could pass in November.
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Plus, Spokane County residents still rank homelessness and public safety as central concerns. And a proposed Washington state bill would ban transgender athletes from girls’ high school sports. New polling suggests it could pass in November.
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Plus, new wildfire relief funds from the state. And representatives from the Association of Washington Business are on a bus tour that includes Spokane County's manufacturing industries. -
A 2006 film chronicling the 1955 “Boys of Boise” moral panic will be screened in North Idaho this week. Spokane Public Radio’s Audrey Nelson called filmmaker Seth Randal to learn more.
