Michelle Loxton
Podcast and Digital Content ProducerMichelle Loxton joined KCLU in June 2021 as Podcast and Digital Content Producer.
Michelle oversees digital products at KCLU and is the host and creator of the station's first award-winning podcast The One Oh One.
The very first episode of The One Oh One (an episode about the crisis of fentanyl in Ventura County) won first place at 64th annual L.A. Press Club awards. An episode on the state of youth mental health received a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award. And at the 73rd annual Golden Mikes AwardsThe One Oh Onepodcast won 'Best Podcast' and 'Best Podcast Feature'.
Michelle has worked in talk and news radio for more than a decade. Before joining KCLU, she worked in public radio as a reporter and host at KAZU (NPR for the Monterey Bay area). At KAZU she was part of the news team that won a National Edward R. Murrow award for the continued coverageof the four major wildfires that ravaged the Central Coast in 2020. Her reporting also extensively covered the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the Central Coast community.
Before moving to California, Michelle worked in Dubai at the Arabian Radio Network for almost five years. There she took on a variety of roles including reporter, producer, newscaster and host. She covered a wide variety of topics from breaking news (the tragic Emirates and FlyDubai plane crashes) to lifestyle events (she was the main correspondent for the Dubai International Film Festival).
Michelle's radio career started in her home country of South Africa where she worked at talk/news radio station CapeTalk as a producer and at jazz and classical station Fine Music Radio as a host and producer.
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To decrease fatal whale strikes and improve air quality, ships were asked to do one thing: slow downThe Santa Barbara Channel is one of the most vibrant, diverse ocean environments for marine animals. It also serves as an important trade route for ships heading to and from Southern California ports. This sharing of space has been fatal for whales and terrible for air quality. The story of how an environmental problem led to a single seemingly simple solution.
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There are close to 600 place names in the U.S. that incorporate the word negro. Before it was negro, it was the N-word. In recent years individuals and groups have set out to change these names – that is true of a mountain near Agoura Hills. In this episode, we look at the shedding of one racist place name in our neighborhood, and how it revealed the hidden history of a Black pioneer.
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This mountain had a racist name, the renaming process revealed the hidden history of a Black pioneerToday it is known as Ballard Mountain, but its original name was N-wordhead mountain.
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In Fall 2022, the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians are slated to open a museum and cultural center on their reservation – something they call a long anticipated dream. The museum will be filled with stories that were lost for a long time, along with exhibits and events that showcase their own language that was only recently rediscovered. In this episode we speak to the tribe and go inside the future museum.
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This Fall, a museum and cultural center is slated to open on the reservation of the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians. The museum will be filled with stories that were lost for decades, along with exhibits and events that showcase their own language that was only recently rediscovered.
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Cerisa House Wesley was the first African American born in the City of Ventura. The year was 1898. And this was the first documented birth at least. Her life is remarkable not just because of her historic birth, but because despite her being a qualified nurse she was never allowed to use her skills in a hospital setting because of the color of her skin. This is the story of a Black nurse no hospital would hire.
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Cerisa House Wesley was the first African American born in the City of Ventura. Her life is remarkable not just because of her historic birth, but because despite her being a qualified nurse she was never allowed to use her skills in a hospital setting because of the color of her skin.
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There are over two million undocumented people living in California. No matter your opinion on illegal immigration, industries like agriculture have a demand for these workers. They’re here. Working and living. In this episode of The One Oh One, we wanted to give you a glimpse into the lives of the undocumented and specifically those that have been 'without papers' a really long time. We're talking decades.
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Once upon a time there was a clam, a butterfly and a fox. They all called the central California Coast their home. They lived happily among trees, on mostly uninhabited islands and hidden under the sand on the beach.But then they all almost disappeared. Why? Some because of human activity – for others, who knows.But this tale does have a happy ending because all these creatures are coming back… some, really quickly.On this episode of The One Oh One – the Pismo Beach Clam, the Monarch Butterfly and the Channel Islands Fox... a comeback story.
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These are the incredible comeback stories of three creatures, living along the Central, South Coasts, that at one stage almost disappeared but are now experiencing a resurgence.