The America Project is...

a public radio documentary series funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and created by producer and reporter Alix Spiegel. Programs from the series air on This American Life and All Things Considered.

Alix Spiegel was a founding producer of the public radio program This American Life, where she is currently a contributing editor.  She contributes to NPR's All Things Considered and the New York Times Magazine.  She grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and lives in Washington, DC.

Alix Spiegel thanks...

Ira Glass—who taught me almost everything I know about journalism in general and radio production in particular—Scott Carrier, Paul Tough, Jack Hitt, Margy Rochlin, Nancy Updike, Julie Synder, Alex Blumberg, and Wendy Dorr.

I would also like to thank my friends and family: Heather Chaplin, Ashley Alsup, Sarah Blust, Clara Lawyer, Zoe Siegal, Dolores Wilbur, Susan Burton, Guy Lawson, Kevin Baker, Ellen Abrahms, Stephen Sherrill, Malcolm Gladwell, Mamie, Alan, Marcus, and last, but certainly not least, Mom, Dad.

None of any of this would have been possible without the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Jeff Ramirez.

The America Project recommends...

• This American Life
• Radio Diaries
• Transom
• Hearing Voices
• Sound Portraits