Feraca, Jean

Wisconsin Public Radio’s Distinguished Senior Broadcaster, is host and executive producer of Here on Earth: Radio without Borders.  Feraca has received several honors including  the Nation’s Discovery Award and two Hopwood Awards.  Recipient of an Ohio State and Gabriel Award for her Women of Spirit radio series on female leaders in the early Christian Church, she also received the National Telemedia Council’s Distinguished Media Award for her radio advocacy of people with mental illness.  She is author of three collections of poetry South From Rome:  Il Mezzgiorno, Crossing the Great Divide; and Rendered into Paradise.  Her newest publication is I Hear Voices:  A Memoir of Love, Death and Radio.