
Allie Ferguson
Sound Effect ProducerSound Effect producer Allie Ferguson has been making radio for nearly 5 years. She got her start at KUOW and has since traveled the country working for national news shows including WNYC's The Takeaway and NPR's Weekend All Things Considered. Allie won a 2016 Gracie Award, which celebrates women in media, for her work at KUOW. She enjoys telling surprising stories about passionate people.
Allie got a degree in international relations at the University of Washington, where she had the opportunity to study in Senegal and Sierra Leone. She claims both Montana and California as her home states, but enjoys anywhere with easy access to mountains and water.
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This story originally aired on November 16, 2019. The sheer physicality of aging and dying are things we try not to think about, so it’s especially…
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Editor's note: This story originally aired on Feb. 11, 2017. Harold Moss died Monday, Sept. 21, 2020, at the age of 90. KNKX is republishing this story in…
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This story originally aired on January 21, 2017.The 2016 presidential election transformed the political narrative across America, including Washington…
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This story originally aired Dec. 31, 2016. Tacoma arborist Mik Miazio loves trees. He has loved them since he was a kid growing up in New Jersey."I…
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This story originally aired March 26, 2016. Many children dream of buried treasure and fantastical adventures in search of gold and jewels. Some…
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This story originally aired on April 16, 2016.For some people, home is not a place of safety and comfort. When writer Anastasia Selby was growing up…
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This story originally aired on September 2, 2017.There is an unassuming, boxy building on the corner of Martin Luther King Junior Way and South 17th…
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This story originally aired on April 30, 2016.Naval base Kitsap-Bangor, located on the Kitsap Peninsula is one of only two military bases in the United…
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This story originally aired on April 30, 2016.Vanessa Davids did most of her military service “inside the wire,” as an Arabic translator on a base in…
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This story originally aired on December 10, 2016. Colin McDaniel grew up on the water. He was raised on Bainbridge Island. In the summer, Colin and his…