Teran Powell
Race & Ethnicity ReporterTeran Powell joined WUWM in the fall of 2017 as the station’s very first Eric Von Broadcast Fellow. She became WUWM's race and ethnicity reporter in 2018.
In 2022, Teran became the WUWM Von fellow mentor, a role where she helps guide journalists in daily newsroom operations, story planning and production process and through other areas of support fellows need to be successful journalists. All of this is with the primary goal of getting fellows prepared for a career in journalism.
Teran began her journalism career during her years as a student at Marquette University. She worked as a reporter for Marquette student media and the Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service covering local events and community activists. She has also freelanced for the Shepherd Express and worked as a show editor for Fox 6 News.
A Chicago native, Teran’s passion for journalism lies within being up close and personal with people in the community and the happenings that affect them directly. With a genuine passion for storytelling, Teran’s goal is to tell the stories that need to be told.
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Milwaukee County Supervisors are considering a ‘sanctuary’ resolution for transgender children, adults and their families.
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'We are here. We exist.' Trans State Fair Park Officer says he and his department are making historyA Black transgender man born and raised in Milwaukee is the first out trans officer with the Wisconsin State Fair Park Police Department. Officer Dezjorn Gauthier worked in public safety at the park for seven years before becoming a police officer in December 2022.
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Three years ago, Kenosha, Wisconsin erupted in several nights of unrest following the police shooting of Jacob Blake.
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An arts hub called Mitchell Street Arts opens today on Historic Mitchell Street on Milwaukee's South Side. It will function as a community maker space, offer an artist-in-residency program, and host public programming.
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The project, Places of Their Own: Learning Chinese American Legacy Through Oral History, explores the experiences of Twentieth Century Chinese Americans in Milwaukee.
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In the former space of the Milwaukee Brewing Company and Bottlehouse 42 in Milwaukee’s Brewery District now lives an incubator dedicated to helping brewers break into the industry. Modeled after the music industry, Pilot Project Brewing serves as a launch pad for startup breweries.
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In the wake of the murders of Black trans women in Milwaukee, other Black trans women weigh in on the impact on their lives and how the media covers the trans community.
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An oral history project examining the nearly 60 year history of the Beckum-Stapleton Little League in Milwaukee will include the perspectives of founder James Beckum, former players, coaches and many more lives touched by the organization.
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Juneteenth commemorates the day — June 19, 1865 — that enslaved Black Americans in Galveston, Texas were told they had been freed. This news came two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Salty Paws is a new doggy ice cream shop that just opened in the Third Ward at 121 N Jefferson Street. All ice cream is made in house, and there's a variety of fun treats for your canine best friend.