Stephen Fowler
Stephen Fowler is the Producer/Back-Up Host for All Things Considered and a creative storyteller hailing from McDonough, Georgia. He graduated from Emory University with a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies. The program combined the best parts of journalism, marketing, digital media and music into a thesis on the rise of the internet rapper via the intersectionality of social media and hip-hop. He served as the first-ever Executive Digital Editor of The Emory Wheel, where he helped lead the paper into a modern digital era.
As a storyteller, his photos, videos, voice and words have won numerous awards and have been featured everywhere from the Coca-Cola Company boardroom to the TEDx stage. He has interviewed an eclectic group of subjects over the years, ranging from Paul Simon to the Dalai Lama, and is always looking for another story to tell.
In his free time, you can ask him to expound on brunch, Atlanta hip-hop and potpourri trivia.
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In swing states like Georgia, Arizona and Michigan, pro-Trump Republican primary candidates for secretary of state have embraced falsehoods about the systems they want to oversee.
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After facing a pandemic, record-setting mail ballot turnout, threats and conspiracies about vote counting, local elections officials are grappling with new laws and high scrutiny for future elections.
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In Georgia, students are showing up to public redistricting meetings and voicing their concerns about how politicians and mapmakers draw political lines in the future.
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A small news site founded days after the 2020 election has become a go-to source for Republicans eager to claim that former President Donald Trump actually won the state of Georgia last fall.
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The U.S. Justice Department has sued the state of Georgia over its new voting law, saying that the controversial measure is intended to restrict ballot access to Black voters.
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Georgia's controversial voting law has been the subject of criticism and backlash. It's also shaping the political landscape for statewide elections that are set to take place next year.
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Georgia passed a highly-partisan bill overhauling the state's voting laws Thursday. Republicans had proposed a number of voting restrictions, walking back some of the more controversial provisions.
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State lawmakers in Georgia are discussing their recently-passed hate crime bill and whether it should be applied against the suspect in this week's shooting deaths at three massage and spa businesses.
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The Republican bill would enact more restrictions on absentee voting and cut back on weekend early voting hours favored by larger counties, among other changes.
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As voting is underway in Georgia's runoff elections for the U.S. Senate, NPR looks at how the process is going and discusses the impact of President Trump's false claims of voter fraud.