Cindy Han
Maine Calling ProducerCindy helps produce Maine Public's live call-in show Maine Calling, and sometimes hosts the show. Her first foray into journalism after graduating from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism was to intern with CNN in China in the wake of the Tiananmen Square massacre. She then worked in print journalism over the decades, as a factchecker, writer and editor, with publications ranging from the Los Angeles Times Magazine to the magazine of the National Zoo to a food trends magazine.
Her broadcast work has included doing radio news in college and in Taiwan, as well as reporting for a TV public affairs program at WQED in Pittsburgh. Cindy began working as a volunteer with Maine Public Radio’s call-in show Maine Calling when it first went on the air and stuck around until she came on board as a full-time producer in 2018. She is thrilled to be a part of a program that helps inform, engage and connect people across Maine—and beyond.
Before moving to Maine, Cindy lived in many different places, growing up in Ohio and Maryland, and later living in New York, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, and Maryland again.
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The multi-faceted ways that Maine's strong network of land trusts work with property owners to manage land and offer programs to the public -
How some Maine towns are using outdoor recreation and eco-tourism to re-energize their economies -
As Head Start marks its 60th anniversary, we examine how the program meets its aims in Maine, and where it's headed -
A new guidebook explores the Allagash Wilderness Waterway—more than a million acres of undeveloped watershed -
The history and back stories to common and unusual surnames in Maine—and how people learn about their family histories -
The butterflies of Maine, why they're in decline, and what can be done to protect them -
The history and traditions of Shakers, and how Maine's Shaker Village is the only active community practicing the religious sect's beliefs -
The psychedlelic drug psilocybin is on the rise, for recreation use and in medical research as a potential treatment -
How has the current political climate affected relations with Canada for people living in Maine's border communities? -
The evolving role of libraries as community hubs, social service providers, tech centers and more—and the impact of federal funding cuts
