Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio serves as a regular guest host of The
State of Things. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age
of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a
magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
From there he went to National Public Radio, where he rose from associate
producer to newscaster for All Things Considered. He left that job in
1990 to help start an alternative school in Washington, DC. Frank is still
heard as a freelance news anchor on NPR. He also presents audio theater
workshops for children and teachers and conducts radio journalism workshops for
broadcasters in former Soviet-block countries.