Crystal Ligori
Crystal Ligori is the producer and newscaster for "All Things Considered" and produces the weekly radio program "Literary Arts: The Archive Project."
Before joining OPB, Crystal worked the active rock station KUFO in Portland. In addition to her on-air role, she was the interim music director and hosted a weekly, local music show. Before moving to Portland, Crystal worked on-air at modern music station KZZU in Spokane, Washington, and hosted the Footbridge Forum at KBGA in Missoula, Montana.
Crystal earned her degree in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Montana. While there, she earned a Society of Professional Journalists award for television feature reporting, a Hearst Journalism Award for broadcast news radio features, and shares a regional Emmy nomination for the documentary "Testing Times: Montana’s Struggle to Leave No Child Behind", for which she was a segment producer and narrator. Crystal is also a freelance voiceover artist.
Latest Stories
The Archive Project: Sally Wen Mao, Paisley Rekdal and Jake Skeets
This week on "Literary Arts: The Archive Project," Sally Wen Mao, Paisley Rekdal, and Jake Skeets discuss reimagining myths and history through their poetry, from the 2019 Portland Book Festival.
The Archive Project - Kesha Ajose Fisher, Ashley Toliver and Anis Mojgani
Oregon Poet Laureate Anis Mojgani leads a conversation between 2020 Oregon Book Award winners Kesha Ajose Fisher and Ashley Toliver.
Racist incidents during remote learning mar the start of the Oregon school year
Racist outbursts and intrusions in online classes and meetings have been happening in school districts around the Portland metro area. We spoke with the director of technology for the Tigard-Tualatin School District about what's happened and how schools can prevent and address it.
The Archive Project: Self-Portrait: Memoir, Auto-Fiction and History
On this episode of "Literary Arts: The Archive Project," Debra Gwartney, Mitchell S. Jackson, and Peter Rock discuss reconstructing the past in order to understand the present in their writing practices.
The Archive Project: Reckoning: Memoir of Trauma and Resilience
On this episode of "Literary Arts: The Archive Project," Laurie Halse Anderson, Saeed Jones, and T Kira Madden discuss writing craft and their recent memoirs at the 2019 Portland Book Festival.
What role is climate change playing in this year’s historic wildfire season?
The unprecedented wildfires in the Pacific Northwest have many people wondering how we got here. Climate Change is part of the answer.
The Archive Project - Jonathan Lethem
On this episode of "Literary Arts: The Archive Project," novelist Jonathan Lethem speaks to what shaped him as a writer and tackles both sides of the debate on the generative function of art.
The Archive Project - Azar Nafisi
On this episode of "Literary Arts: The Archive Project," Iranian writer and activist Azar Nafisi examines literature as identity, radical stereotypes, and a blind obedience to leadership.
The Archive Project - The Long Distance
On this episode of "Literary Arts: The Archive Project," we look back at our recent "Long Distance" podcast series interviews with three women writers of color who released debut novels in summer 2020.
A huckleberry by any other name: The story behind Westerners’ favorite wild berries
Huckleberry season is in full swing in the Pacific Northwest, and whether you forage them yourself or pay a pretty penny at your local farmer's market, these berries are a sweet staple of summer. But what if we told you huckleberries don't grow in the West? In fact, you've been enjoying native blueberries all along.