Program Director at the Chicago Humanities Festival.
Alison Cuddy is Program Director at the Chicago Humanities Festival. Previously she was a journalist, whose work has appeared on NPR and the BBC. Most recently she spent nearly more than ten years at WBEZ, Chicago Public Media, where she was the arts and culture reporter and host of the award-winning daily program Eight Forty-Eight. Alison also served as the senior producer of Chicago Matters, the year-long series examining various topics of broad interest to the region. Currently, she co-hosts Strange Brews, a podcast about the culture of craft beer.
Prior to 2001, Alison worked in the Immigration Department of ThoughtWorks, Inc. in Chicago, and was an adjunct professor at DePaul University as well as a teaching fellow at the University of Pittsburgh. She holds an M.A. in English from the University of Pittsburgh and a B.F.A. in Cinema Studies from Concordia University in Montréal.