Alix Spiegel
| Alix Spiegel | |
|---|---|
| Born | Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
| Show |
Invisibilia\\ This American Life |
| Network | National Public Radio |
| Time slot | Syndication |
| Style | Presenter |
| Country | United States |
| Website | www |
Alix Spiegel is an American public radio producer and science journalist who has worked on This American Life and for National Public Radio. She currently hosts and produces the program Invisibilia with Lulu Miller.
Spiegel grew up in Baltimore, Maryland in a secular Jewish household. She played the violin from a very young age and initially considered a career as a musician. After graduating from Oberlin College, Spiegel moved to Chicago where she saw an announcement in a newspaper about a fledgling local show for WBEZ called Your American Playhouse: Documentaries About American Life. In 1995 Spiegel began correspondence with the show's producer, Ira Glass, who took her on as an intern. In 1996 the show changed its name to This American Life and was picked up nationally by Public Radio International, by which time Spiegel was producing pieces for the show. That year Spiegel and the show's other producers won the George Foster Peabody Award
In 2002, Spiegel won the Livingston Award for episode #204 "81 Words" about Spiegel's own grandfather, Dr. John Patrick Spiegel, who had a hand in removing homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. In 2007, she won the Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award for the segment, "Which One of These is Not Like the Others?" for episode #322, "Shouting Across the Divide".
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