Meet Kelly Gordon
Kelly Gordon is the producer of Big Books and Bold Ideas with Kerri Miller and North Star Journey Live, an event series and show designed to highlight communities in Minnesota that are often overlooked.
Before joining MPR News, Kelly was a TV news producer at NBC 7 San Diego, where she was nominated for an Emmy Award for coverage of the 1998 El Nino. She also edited several newspapers in the San Diego beach communities.
Kelly’s work has received several awards and distinctions including Eric Sevareid Awards from the Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association for her work on “North Star Journey Live” and “Climate Cast.”
While she misses California, Kelly considers Minnesota home and can often be found outdoors with her family, celebrating the gift of four distinct seasons. She especially loves spending time on the North Shore.
Recent Contributions
- Eric Puchner’s new novel circles around a love triangle that spans a lifetime
- Going backwards? Health care equity in Minnesota, five years after COVID
- Chris Bohjalian's new novel about the Civil War sees the humanity in our enemies
- When the world is underwater, what will we save? A new dystopian novel explores the answer
- This author witnessed South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation hearings. Years later, she wrote about it
- 'The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir'
- Health psychologist explains how to change your mindset and embrace winter in new book
- Aging in place: What it really takes to live at home as you get older
- Novelist Geraldine Brooks reflects on the abrupt loss of her husband in her new memoir
- My family's immigration story — and yours