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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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." -
Tim Bond, the artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, directs the August Wilson play March 9 – July 20 at the Angus Bowmer Theatre. -
"Jitney" is the eighth August Wilson play to be staged at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. -
The Redding Trail Alliance hosts the festival at the Cascade Theatre on February 22.
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The long-time NPR host looks back on her career with JPR's Vanessa Finney. -
Artist Julie Anderson Bailey shares how creating art has helped her through sad and anxious times.
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The documentary "Outliers and Outlaws" is one piece of the University of Oregon's Eugene Lesbian History Project. -
Holocaust survivor, Felicia Lubliner felt driven to remind us that the millions who perished were not defined by their deaths but by their lives-their joys, dreams, loves. -
The documentary "Outliers and Outlaws" documents the history of a large and vibrant lesbian community in Eugene, Oregon.
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Vanessa Finney, host of My Better Half, interviews Diana Coogle, a life adventurer. -
JPR's Vanessa Finney gets recommendations for this season's reading from three local booksellers: Lynn and Kat from The Book Exchange and Megan from Bloomsbury Books. -
Ashland's Book Exchange and Bloomsbury Books share their recommendations for new and classic memoirs, mysteries, and nature writing.
