Listening to podcasts is an activity Rachel DePompa does every day. “It’s one of my favorite things to do,” says DePompa, NBC12’s investigative reporter and creator of the NBC12 podcast…
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Joan Tupponce
An award-winning writer based in Richmond, Joan Tupponce is a parent, grandparent, and self-admitted Disney freak. She writes about anything and everything and enjoys meeting inspiring people and telling their stories. Joan’s work has appeared in RFM since the magazine’s first issue in October 2009. Look for original and exclusive online articles about Richmond-area people, places, and ideas at Just Joan: RVA Storyteller.
Robin Farmer’s new book, Malcolm and Me: A Novel, is as relevant today as it was when the author was growing up in the 1970s. The young adult publication is…
Connie Matthews Harshaw is thrilled that Colonial Williamsburg archaeologists are beginning their excavation to find the original structure of First Baptist Church, one of the country’s oldest churches founded entirely…
Amy Shira Teitel believes there are many things we can glean from early space history. “There are endless lessons to take inspiration from in the era from the mid-1950s to…
It’s not a coincidence that producer Laura McCann wanted to air the documentary These Things Can Be Done on VPM PBS on August 13. This past August America celebrated the…
Executive producers of America’s Got Talent are used to dealing with death-defying acts. But a pandemic? Not so much. This season has been anything but ordinary for the television industry.…
Midlothian resident Hannah Qizilbash discovered her underlying passion of making an impact in the lives of kids when she wrote her first children’s book, The Purple Grasshopper. “All of this…
This October 3, the stage at Virginia Rep’s November Theatre will light up once again with a live production of Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. The show shares the…
Be kind, serve others, and do the right thing. That’s the filter Juri Miller uses to make all decisions; the one that guided her when she had to make changes…
It hasn’t been easy for Marc Cheatham – who goes by Cheats – to explain the COVID-19 virus to his 5-year-old son Cameron. One of the main takeaways for Cameron…
As lead contact tracer for the Virginia Department of Health, Delaney Savedge is squarely focused on finding the most efficient way to interview people with COVID-19 in an effort to…
For two years, Rachel Beanland’s alarm went off at four-thirty in the morning. For the next three hours each day, she would make her way to the computer and write…