Vanessa Finney
News Host / ProducerVanessa Finney is JPR's Arts Reporter, All Things Considered host, and the award-winning host of My Better Half - a podcast and Jefferson Exchange segment that explores how people are thriving in the second half of their lives. Outside of JPR, Vanessa sings Jazz & Bossa Nova and produces The Work of Art for Southern Oregon PBS. Originally from California, she graduated from UCLA with a BA in Literature then earned an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Antioch University Los Angeles.
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Elizabeth Zelinka Parsons talks about her new book with Vanessa Finney. -
JPR's Vanessa Finney spoke with AIFF co-director of programming, Richard Herskowitz, plus filmmakers Richard Green and Gary Lundgren, about the curated slate of films. -
Vanessa Finney visits with the organizers of AIFF and a filmmaker. -
Filmmakers Jessica Plumb and Jeremy Monroe join KS Wild's Allee Gustafson to talk with JPR's Vanessa Finney about inspiring environmental activism and a love for nature. -
Roy Sutton passed away in March while in the middle of three projects. JPR revisits his 2024 conversation with "My Better Half" host Vanessa Finney. -
Sprinter Roy Sutton promoted the idea of a 150+ club, where people of all ages recognize fitness values in each other around town.
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Vanessa Finney talks with KS Wild. which is hosting the WSFF along with Rogue Riverkeeper.
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JPR's Vanessa Finney talks with the director of Oregon's first professionally-staged production of "Waitress." -
Bloomsbury Book's new co-owner, Megan Isser, gives JPR's Vanessa Finney a glimpse into this season's new releases from authors Suzanne Collins, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Charlotte McConaghy and more. -
Director Lauren Blair joins host Vanessa Finney on The Creative Way.
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Megan Isser of Ashland's Bloomsbury Books highlights new memoir, YA fiction, and romantic thrillers.
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JPR's Vanessa Finney talks with AARP's Chief Public Policy Officer and author of "The Second Fifty: Answers to the 7 Big Questions of Midlife and Beyond."
