Tom Williams
UPR Management | Program Director | Access Utah HostTom Williams worked as a part-time UPR announcer for a few years and joined Utah Public Radio full-time in 1996. He is a proud graduate of Uintah High School in Vernal and Utah State University (B. A. in Liberal Arts and Master of Business Administration.) He grew up in a family that regularly discussed everything from opera to religion to politics. He is interested in just about everything and loves to engage people in conversation, so you could say he has found the perfect job as host “Access Utah.” He and his wife Becky, live in Logan.
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Tribune reporters join this week to talk about the latest news, including the Trump administration revoking the visas of at least 20 University of Utah international students. -
UPR Co-Station Manager Kerry Bringhurst joins us to talk about the celebrated national storytelling project’s upcoming visit to southern Utah beginning April 24th. -
Part travelogue, part memoir, part reporting, Robin Hemley’s book "Borderline Citizen" redefines notions of nationhood by exploring the arbitrariness of boundaries and what it means to belong. -
We preview the USU Sorenson Center's upcoming Caregiver Burnout Workshop, as well as other services the center provides. -
On this episode, we talk with Robin Patten about her book "The Mountain: Journeys in High Places." -
Jon Meyer, Abby Bushman, and Casey Olson from the Utah Climate Center join for this episode. -
We're joined by Michael de Yoanna, managing editor of the Mountain West News Bureau. -
Kirk Siegler is a national correspondent for NPR News. As a roving reporter, he covers the western U.S. with an emphasis on rural issues, water and the effects of climate change on smaller communities. -
Brooke Williams writes about evolution, consciousness, and his own adventures exploring both the inner and outer wilderness. -
We talk with Dan Murphy, whose new collection of poems "Estate Sale" is being published by University of Utah Press. He is winner of the 2024 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry.
