With Good Reason

Meet the Staff

Host – Sarah McConnell began her career as a reporter with Charlottesville, VA’s WINA 1070 AM.  After twenty years as WINA’s News Director, she became host of With Good Reason in 2002.  Sarah continues to train upcoming journalists as part of the Board of Directors for WUVA.  She and her husband, Bob Gibson, have three daughters, Helen, Logan and Stella.

Associate Producer – Elliot Majerczyk came to the VFH in 2004 after eight years as a writer-broadcaster for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Montreal.  On his time off, Elliot can be found creating “soundscapes” with his home recording technology, approximating good Mexican and Southern cuisine, or just giggling at nothing with his daughter Aviva.  To hear one of his sound compositions, listen to the beginning of The Horror of it All.

  
Associate Producer – Thomas Pierce has worked as a producer, show director and reporter.  His radio stories have aired on NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday, Weekend Edition Sunday, Morning Edition, and All Things Considered.  In 2008, he traveled the country covering the presidential elections for NPR – as a field producer, reporter, and blogger.  He’s reported on the last of the shrimpers, hikers on the Appalachian Trail during the recession, and his own fear of rattlesnakes.  Originally from South Carolina, he received an NPR Kroc Fellowship in 2006.  He joined the VFH in 2010.

 News Feature Producer – Nancy King and With Good Reason host Sarah McConnell first shared newsroom duties at WINA back in 1979. For seven years, Nancy produced and hosted a daily interview program there called Charlottesville Live, where she chatted with the likes of John Grisham and Rita Mae Brown. Prior to that, Nancy worked as a political reporter in Washington, D.C., and Little Rock, AR. Her passion is birds and she frequently travels with friends to track down elusive species. Nancy also freelances for VFH Radio’s own Humanities Feature Bureau.

Executive Producer – Andrew Wyndham, VFH Director of Media Programs, manages and has created other radio projects and initiatives, including BackStory with the American History Guys and the Humanities Feature Bureau. Andrew developed and served as project director for the 2003 Re-Imagining Ireland international conference and festival, which won the 2004 Schwartz Prize awarded by the Federation of State Humanities Councils. He coordinates the Southern Humanities Media Fund, which supports documentary films and radio programs on the South.

Listener Services – Jeannie Palin makes it possible for With Good Reason to provide free CDs of show episodes to listeners. In between her many duties as part-time Receptionist at the VFH, she manages the listener request database and mails out CDs to listeners around the region.  Before Jeannie joined the VFH Staff in 1997, she taught elementary students for nine years and then raised a family full-time at home.