Meet the Team
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Megan Feighery
HOST/PRODUCER
Megan grew up in Southern California and spent most summers exploring America's National Parks with her family. It inspired a love of travel she carried with her into adulthood. Megan has backpacked solo across Europe and Canada and spent five years living abroad teaching English in The Republic of Georgia and Japan.
She has a deep love of nature and animals and can’t say no to an animal in need. She and her husband have three rescued cats named Piper, Ripley, and Poopfoot that run the household.
In her free time, you can often find Megan hiking, kayaking, cooking, reading a mystery novel, and wondering if they’ll ever make National Treasure 3.
Twitter: @megstoriches
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Charles Fournier
EDITOR
Charles Fournier teaches high school English. Since earning an MA in literature from the University of Wyoming, Charles has dabbled in Italian archaeology, road trip classrooms, paddleboard building, and coaching wrestling. His work, written and audio, has been featured on The Modern West and HumaNature podcasts, in The Owen Wister Review, and at various academic conferences.
When given the opportunity, Charles loves to escape outside with his wife, Jennie, and dogs, Sophie and Remi. Whether cross-country skiing in the Rocky Mountains, hiking in Moab, backpacking in the Wind River Range, paddling in the Finger Lakes, climbing at Vedauwoo, or making big decisions while staring at the ocean, he prefers to be outside.
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Greg Ronco
EDITOR
Greg Ronco is a Boston native. In addition to working as an associate producer for HumaNature, he teaches at the University of Wyoming and produces digital content for WyoGlobal. Greg is also a founding editor of the Meadowlark Review and the lead producer of The Dead Beat podcast. He is a recent MFA graduate and is currently pursuing another graduate degree in English.
Greg spends most of his time writing, photographing, hiking, and drinking tea. He loves storytelling in all its formats and is a traveler at heart, losing himself on several mountains and chasing a few too many wild animals. The resulting encounters with pika, seals, sunrises, and starlit skies have not helped this habit, but have left him with an affinity for the natural world.
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Ivy Engel
EDITOR
Ivy started as a science news intern in the summer of 2019 and has been hooked on broadcast ever since. Her internship was supported by the Wyoming EPSCoR Summer Science Journalism Internship program. In the spring of 2020, she virtually graduated from the University of Wyoming with a B.S. in biology with minors in journalism and business. When she’s not writing for WPR, she enjoys baking, reading, playing with her dog, and caring for her many plants.
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Ryan Kelley
EDITOR/PRODUCER
Ryan Kelley works as a Producer at Wyoming Public Media. Kelley was born and raised in Greeley, Colorado and graduated from the University of Northern Colorado in 2019. From there, Kelley began working in commercial radio as a board operator in Greeley, bringing live and local programming to Northern Colorado listeners. In his free time, Kelley enjoys hiking, music, and getting the opportunity to explore his new home in Wyoming.
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HumaNature Alumni
Caroline Ballard, Alanna Elder, Ashton Hooker, London Homer-Wambeam, Erin Jones, August Lah, Ryan Oberhelman, Annie Osburn, Anna Rader, Micah Schweizer, and Tressa Versteeg
About
Wyoming is among America’s last wild places, and our proximity to nature informs the show’s outlook. Stories from around the world are grounded in the belief that humans are not separate from nature but inextricably a part of it.
Visual artist Meg Thompson’s cover art (above) illustrates the show’s overarching themes: human against nature, nature against human, and harmony.
The winner of three PMJA (Public Media Journalists Association) Best Station Podcast awards, HumaNature has aired on more than 100 public radio stations and ran weekly on SiriusXM satellite radio in 2017-2018. It has been featured on CBC Radio-Canada’s Podcast Playlist, WHYY’s The Pulse, and WAMC’s 51% and on podcasts including Brain on Nature, NHPR’s Outside/In, and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Off Track.
HumaNature was an official selection at the 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, accompanied an exhibition at Denmark’s ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, and landed on the Bello Collective’s “Best Audio Stories of 2016.”
So pop in some earbuds and discover the world we share.
HumaNature tells stories about human experiences in the natural world, “blending adventure, reality, activism and thrilling storytelling.” —The Dyrt
“You could listen to any number of podcasts on climate change, but HumaNature from Wyoming Public Media provides a more thoughtful meditation on why our environment is sacred.” —Ashley Lusk, The Bello Collective
“These are playful, insightful, quirky, provocative, dark, funny, unexpected stories that leave listeners wondering whether we’ve learned more about ourselves or the natural world—and ultimately doubting whether this distinction is all that meaningful.” —Jeff Lockwood, University of Wyoming professor of Natural Sciences and Humanities
“Really incredible stories about humans in nature…one of the most moving podcast episodes I’ve ever heard.” —Between Two Earbuds
“Terrific storytelling.” —Audible Feast
“Absolutely delightful.” —Melody Kramer, Poynter
If you’re interested by the absurd, scary, and fascinating ways in which people interact with the natural world, this podcast deserves your ear.” —Abe Streep, Outside Magazine contributing editor
