
Crystal Ligori
Crystal Ligori hosts of "All Things Considered" and narrates OPB's digital food series "Superabundant". She also 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
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The booze-free movement thriving in the Pacific Northwest
The Pacific Northwest is at the forefront of a new movement in how we imbibe. And it’s not for the region's award-winning Willamette Valley wines or hop-heavy IPAs. Instead, it’s about what’s not in our drinks: alcohol.
A celebration of garlic draws thousands to North Plains
For 25 years, North Plains has been celebrating all things garlic with a very fragrant festival.

10 Barrel Brewing, Widmer Brothers being sold to cannabis company
Some of Oregon’s most iconic breweries are changing hands once again and going to a perhaps unlikely owner: the largest cannabis company in the world. St Louis based Anheuser-Busch struck a deal to sell Bend's 10-Barrel Brewing Company and Portland's Widmer Brothers Brewing and Square Mile Cider Company to cannabis and lifestyle company Tilray.

The Archive Project - Kwame Alexander and Gregory Gourdet
Kwame Alexander discusses fatherhood, food, the power of connection, and his memoir in this moving conversation with chef Gregory Gourdet.
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A new exhibit explores Indigiqueer history in the Pacific Northwest
A new exhibit at the Chachalu Museum and Cultural Center in Grand Ronde shares the history of Shimkhin, a 19th-century Two-Spirit Atfalati Kalapuya healer. Co-curators Felix Furby and Anthony Hudson designed 'My Father's Father's Sister: Our Ancestor Shimkhin" to explore their own identities and celebrate Indigiqueer people in The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde.
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Fighting hunger in Portland with fresh food before it goes to waste
Roughly one in 10 Oregonians doesn’t have enough to eat and food insecurity disproportionately impacts communities of color, families with children, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ communities. At the same time, 40% of food in this country is being thrown away, which is why a Portland nonprofit is trying to save that food and get it to people in need.

Providence nurses strike expected to begin Monday
OPB health reporter Amelia Templeton spoke with “All Things Considered” host Crystal Ligori about the impending strike.
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Portland chef Vince Nguyen on his James Beard Award and reconnecting to Vietnamese cuisine
Last week, Portland chef Vince Nguyen took home a James Beard Award for Best Chef: Northwest and Pacific. His restaurant Berlu gave him space to reimagine Vietnamese cuisine, something he reconnected with during the pandemic.

The Archive Project - Ellen Hagan & Sabina Khan
These best-selling YA authors discuss their recent books, community & culture, climate change, and how they convey hope through their works.

The Archive Project - Amor Towles: The Lincoln Highway
Amor Towles discusses the inspiration for and process of writing his latest bestseller, "The Lincoln Highway," at this special event in Portland.