Lindsay Totty
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Lindsay Totty grew up in Washington, DC, and, despite the long drives his father took him on as a boy with the radio tuned to sports stations all along the way; he managed to eventually discover public radio in high school. At Amherst College, he was an English major, concentrating hard on creative writing, and he wrote a novella about the go-go and indie scene in DC. He joined the campus radio station and hosted a weekly two-hour music show that was often scheduled during office hours, while the other DJs walked about, denigrating Top 40 and pushing the lenses out of their glasses. He grinned at their antics but waited impatiently for them to leave so he could get out of his chair and play air guitar. It was these skills that got him an internship with the DC-based Kojo Nnamdi Show, where he performed assistant producer duties and got over his fear of cold-calling sources. This became useful the summer after graduation, when he was an intern with the weekly Current newspaper in Northwest Washington. He eschewed finding paying jobs after that, banking on getting an internship with NPR, and it paid off. He interns with the Arts and Information Desk, and he has no qualms.
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