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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Getting people into space involves a lot of risks. From the explosive fuel needed to launch a rocket to the flecks of space dust that could poke a hole in…
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Often times our sense of responsibility is to a place, a community. For writer Jack Cameron, that place is Tacoma; he just loves his hometown.“There’s not…
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At hospice centers throughout the Northwest, there’s a simple message written on posters and plaques and displayed throughout the halls. It says “Please…
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Maxine Linial is a virologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and one of the world's leading researchers on an obscure group of…
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As a young girl in Catholic school, Diane Whalen always wanted to be close to God. She set her sights on becoming a nun, until puberty hit and her…
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For Tracy Rector, the water was always a scary place. She never learned to swim as a kid. At summer camp she would sit on the dock and enviously watch the…
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What happens when the thing you’re called to do goes against everything you believe in? And what if a life hangs in the balance? Frank Thompson is no…
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In America, the phrase "call of duty" is most often associated with our men and women in uniform. Signing up for the military often requires a very strong…
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For many immigrant families, food is a way to both stay connected to their culture, and a way to survive. For the Chou family, opening a restaurant seemed…
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Everyone’s got a favorite food. But how about a favorite crop? Dr. Stephen Jones, director of Washington State University's Bread Lab in Mt. Vernon, loves…