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Hear Dmae Roberts on OPB

Peabody Award winner Dmae Roberts will be interviewed by April Baer during Oregon Public Broadcasting's membership drive on Thursday, Feb. 5 from 1 to 2pm on OPB.org/radio(OPB 91.5 FM / 550 AM).

Since the late '80s, Dmae has brought much-needed focus Oregon's history, art and cultural communities. In 1989, detailing her cross-cultural relationship with her mother in "Mei Mei: A Daughter's Song, winning her first Peabody Award. Through the nonprofit MediaRites, Dmae created Legacies cross-cultural documentaries and paved the way for online multimedia production in 2000 with Stories1st.org. Roberts championed multi-arts production by combining outreach workshops, events and theatre with national documentary making about underserved communities.

In 2007, Roberts won her second Peabody with the eight-hour "Crossing East," the first Asian-American history series on public radio. That same year, she won the first United States Artist Fellowship and the Asian American Journalists Association's Civil Rights and Social Justice award. Her most recent works are "Coming Home: The Return of the Alutiiq Masks" and "In the Mix: Conversations with Artists ...Between Artists."

Tune in to OPB via its online stream and listen to Dmae share selected clips of her 20+ years of creating artistic documentaries that open minds and shape the way public radio can touch our lives.

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