Kirsten Swanson
Weekend Host | ProducerKirsten grew up listening to Utah Public Radio in Smithfield, Utah and now resides in Logan. She has three children and is currently producing Utah StoryCorps and working as the Saturday morning host on UPR. Kirsten graduated from Utah State University with a Bachelor's degree History in 2000 and dual minors in Horticulture and German. She enjoys doing voice work, stories, gardening, teaching children, and dancing. Major credits include StoryCorps, Utah Works, One Small Step, and the APTRA award-winning Ride the Rails.
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Mar Fenix Nauta and Julianne Larsen talk about how they met and some of the good times in their 15 years together.
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Kristina Winn says she has a special love for her grandmother, Kenna Worthington, a self-described woman of faith who faces life’s challenges one stitch at a time.
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Lemuel Earl tells his son Bryan and grandson Micah about the life and love he shared with his wife through war, work and illness.
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Tim Nielsen talks with his mother Mary Jean about their shared faith and the experiences that enliven it.
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Dixee Neugebauer brought her daughter and granddaughter into the StoryCorps booth in May and told them of the joys and challenges she experienced as a young woman in her first teaching job.
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Best friends David Simmons and Jason Kimber get together in the StoryCorps trailer to share a particularly pungent story of growing up in Grouse Creek, Utah.
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Irja Higginbotham, interviewed by her son Thomas, shares her story of coming from war-torn Finland to the U.S.
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Loaves and Fishes volunteer meal coordinators Lisa Simmons, Emily Malik and Amber Summers-Graham share memorable moments, triumphs and catastrophes from volunteering with the Loaves and Fishes Community Meal in Cache Valley.
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Michelle Bonner and Sharron Larsen look back on Sharron's long career in the insurance business in Cache Valley.
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With StoryCorps in Logan, Allan Anderson took the chance to ask his mother about the first big loves of her life, and made a few discoveries.