Kristin McHugh

Kristin McHugh is the radio producer and a program officer for the Stanley Foundation.

Kristin served as a correspondent for the radio documentaries the Iran Project and the award-winning Russia Project. She also served as project manager and segment correspondent for the radio documentary "Children of War: Fighting, Dying, Surviving."

Kristin has earned dozens of awards for news coverage. Her 2002 story "Kosovo's Pied Piper: The Liz Shropshire Story" won the RFK Journalism Award, a National Headliner citation, and was a finalist for the 2003 Harry Chapin Media Award. Kristin was also a finalist for the 2001 and 2002 Livingston Award for Young Journalists and one of five finalists for the first-ever Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize honoring individual news work of significance and quality by a journalist age 35 or younger in public radio. Kristin is a past president of the Iowa Associated Press Broadcasters and the Iowa Broadcast News Association.

She has reported from Russia, Serbia, Japan, Cambodia, Kosovo, and the Netherlands.

Kristin holds a B.A. in communications/broadcast journalism from the University of Northern Iowa.