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Melanie is WUOT’s interim news director and Professor of Practice in journalism at the University of Tennessee, where she has taught reporting, editing and media entrepreneurship since 2012. Before teaching, Melanie worked for Bloomberg News for 11 years in a variety of cities and roles, from managing the multimedia desk to producing television. In between her journalism jobs, Melanie worked as director of information services at Opera America, putting her M.A. in musicology, from Montreal’s McGill University, to good use.

The Philadelphia born musician has worked with Wynton Marsalis, Christian McBride, Cassandra Wilson, Benny Carter and many other greats. Our regular Improvisations listeners will already be familiar with him as his albums have been in heavy rotation on WUOT for many years, including his recent chart topping recording, For Such a Time as This. Eric came to Knoxville to take a position as Artist in Residence in the UT School of Music. If you love his music, you will love his playlist!

Ernest Freeberg is an American historian in 19th and 20th-century American culture, currently a Distinguished Humanities Professor and Departmental Chair of History at the University of Tennessee.

Lilly Knoepp serves as Blue Ridge Public Radio’s first full-time reporter covering Western North Carolina. More of Knoepp's work can be found here.

Read more about Whittney Evans here.