Shannon Henry Kleiber
Shannon Henry Kleiber is an award-winning author, newspaper journalist and radio and podcast producer based in Madison, Wisconsin. Kleiber is a senior producer and interviewer for To the Best of Our Knowledge, a national public radio show from Wisconsin Public Radio and PRX. Kleiber is a former staff writer and columnist for The Washington Post, where she covered technology culture for the Business section. She has written two non-fiction books, “The Dinner Club,” about the dot com boom and bust era, and “On My Honor” about Girl Scouts of the USA founder Juliette Gordon Low. A three-part series from To the Best of Our Knowledge she co-executive produced, “Going for Broke,” about Americans on the edge of the economy, won first place in the 2023 National Headliner Awards for best civic/political affairs podcast. The series, created in partnership with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, also won an EPPY from Editor & Publisher and a Gold Award from the National Association of Real Estate Editor Awards.
Docupoetry
Co-published with Wisconsin Public Radio and PRX. For generations, documentary poets have helped make sense of some of our most difficult moments – by expressing what might otherwise be impossible to say. So what are they writing about
Going for Broke: Can Work Be Love?
National Headliner Award Winner, Best Civic/Political Affairs Podcast | In this final part of our series, we’re talking about the right to meaningful work and what happens to people who look for work while also having a disability
Going for Broke: Making Up Our Minds
Co-published with PRX’s To the Best of Our Knowledge. Post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health challenges can push people into poverty.
Going for Broke: Change of Address
Co-published with PRX’s To the Best of Our Knowledge. In the first of three episodes of "Going For Broke," we're thinking about housing. Many of us would consider it a basic human right. But in America, it
