Abby Wendle
Abby Wendle is a reporter and producer for NPR's Embedded podcast. She recently helped report and produce The Network, a series about the global movement allowing women to have safe abortions without a doctor, regardless of the law.
She was hired by NPR in 2015 to work for Invisibilia where she threw listeners into the uncertainty of a tornado, helped them hear climate change, asked Norwegian Slow TV what it can teach Americans about democracy and encouraged friends to talk with each other about... poop.
Before joining NPR, Wendle was a farm reporter for Harvest Public Media in rural Illinois and helped launch This Land Radio in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her work has appeared on NPR, the BBC, CBC and ABC in Australia and has received awards from The Missouri Review, The Third Coast International Audio Festival, KCRW's 24 Hour Radio Race and was a finalist for the John B. Oaks Award for Two Heart Beats a Minute (producer).
Wendle is also a sculptor and installation artist. Her work has appeared at ArtFarm, Rhizome DC and Re:Happening through the Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center.
She has a BA in Liberal Studies from Flagler College and a Master of Science in Journalism from Columbia University.
