Matt Purdy
Matt Purdy is the senior producer of WGBH and PRI's Innovation Hub.
Before that, he was senior producer of WYPR's Maryland Morning , which won a 2014 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award for a series on race and inequality in the Baltimore region. His earliest foray into radio, a story about a bicycle trip he took across the United States, won a 2010 ShortDoc Award from Third Coast. Before radio, he was a Peace Corps volunteer in Bulgaria (zdravei!).
producer
2010 ShortDocs Winner! An 80-day bicycle trip from New York City to Seattle, camping and recording along the way, condensed into three minutes.
presenter
In early 2010, the Third Coast teamed up with the incomparable pop / indie / experiemental band The Books, and issued an open invitation to make radio.
participant
October 28-30, Chicago