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Asher Wertheimer

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About Me

I am a journalist with a passion for storytelling, with a special focus on nature and the environment. Learning through experience is very important to me, and I am always looking for challenges that take me out of my comfort zone and teach me something new.

Award Winning Podcast

Listen to Finding the Wilderness, the first episode of my award winning podcast, 30 Below. This episode won first place in the 2023 Michigan Association of Broadcasters Student Broadcast Challenge for the Talk Show category. The competition featured submissions from universities all over the state. You can see the 30 Below website here.

Finding the Wilderness30 Below
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Micigan Public

Michigan Public

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Photos

Photos

Videos

Videos

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Writings

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Making It
Fiction

One of the short stories included in my portfolio which won the 2022 Leo T. Hendrik Creative Writing Prize.

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Complicated Things
Research Essay

The complicated nature of immigration and asylum.

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Scud Missile or Sinkhole?
Report

How dozens of people narrowly avoided tragedy in Olivet, Michigan in 1991.

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The Peace of the Dogyard
Nonfiction

My experience learning dog mushing. Published in Sons of Norway's Viking magazine.

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Bewitched
Literary Essay

Analysis of ideal female behavior in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "Christabel".

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Bars and Stars
Research Essay

The history, and future, of Confederate monuments.

Writings
Resume

Resumé

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