Susan Bence
Environmental ReporterSusan Bence entered broadcasting in an untraditional way. After years of avid public radio listening, Susan returned to school and earned a bachelor's degree in Journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She interned for WUWM News and worked with the Lake Effect team, before being hired full-time as a WUWM News reporter / producer.
Susan is now WUWM's Environmental Reporter, the station's first. Her work has been recognized by the Milwaukee Press Club, the Northwest Broadcast News Association, and the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association.
Susan worked with Prevent Blindness Wisconsin for 20 years, studied foreign languages at UWM, and loves to travel.
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Marissa Jablonski became the Freshwater Collaborative of Wisconsin's first executive director in 2020. She anticipates the initiative will have a global reach within a decade. -
Sculpture Ava Hager's exhibition at Walker's Point neighborhood gallery, Arts @ Large, reveals the sometimes painful process of creating art.
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Scientist Nicole Tautges with Michael Fields Agricultural Institute is working with a perennial grain to make it profitable for farmers to grow.
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Removal of contaminated sediment in the Milwaukee estuary this year signals a step forward in its clean up.
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Kate Nelson headed UW-Milwaukee's Office of Sustainability since its inception in 2008. She describes her 15-year tenure as a calling.
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Milwaukee lost a quiet, yet powerful activist earlier this year. Many of Bill Sell’s 83 years were dedicated to civil rights, social justice and peace. In later years, he took on mass transit and environmental advocacy.
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A 16-1 Milwaukee County supervisors' vote Thursday directs the parks department and county administration to draft a comprehensive report on options for the Domes' future.
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The City of Waukesha could start breaking ground on a short, but critical stretch of water pipeline in just a matter of weeks, thanks to a Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors decision Thursday afternoon.
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Waukesha is under court order to begin diverting Lake Michigan water as the city's drinking water source by next September. Waukesha says in order to make that happen, it needs to lay a small bit of the pipeline on Milwaukee County parkland.
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The Wisconsin Natural Resources Board unanimously OK'd the DNR’s request to draft standards to limit four PFAS chemicals in groundwater. This marks the agency's second attempt to bring the protective standards to life.
