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Emily SchwingES

Emily Schwing

The World
Emily Schwing started stuffing envelopes for KUER FM90 in Salt Lake City in 2002. It was meant to be volunteer position, but it turned into a multi-year summer internship in the public radio newsroom. Emily moved on to an internship with "Radio Expeditions" at National Public Radio in Washington, DC, in 2006. She’s also worked for Deutsche Welle Radio in Bonn, Germany. Emily has also filed stories for NPR, APM, CBC, Monocle Radio and National Native News. Emily grew up between Denver, Pittsburgh and Salt Lake City. She is currently based in Fairbanks, Alaska. In the winter, Emily becomes something of a "Mushing Correspondent," following all 1,000 miles of the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race and the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. She regularly produces stories on Arctic research, science and resource development.
Backcountry race draws skiers to Greenland
4:22
Arctic circle race draws skiers from around the world to Greenland
5:19
US confirms its first Arctic ambassador-at-large
5:37
US looking to learn from Canada’s truth and reconciliation with residential schools  
Hundreds of unmarked graves found at Indigenous school in Canada 
Indigenous communities and the Catholic Church react to the discovery of 215 bodies of Indigenous children in British Columbia 
‘Welcome home’ Sinixt tribe
No room for mail in Canada’s far north
Attendees perform a round dance during a press conference and prayer vigil at the former Muscowequan Indian Residential School, one of the last residential schools to close its doors in Canada in 1997 and the last fully intact residential school still sta
Conflict & Justice
What the US can learn from Canada’s commission on Indigenous residential schools
Flowers, children's shoes and other items rest at a memorial
Human rights
Gruesome boarding school discovery forces Canada to reckon with its cultural genocide history
A group of Sinixt tribal members stand together near a mound and conduct a ceremony.
Justice
Canada’s highest court rules in favor of Sinixt tribal rights at heart of hunting case
The Supreme Court of Canada is seen in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Nov. 4, 2019.
Justice
Do US-living descendants of tribes in Canada have rights north of the border?
A man raises his left arm in protest.
Climate Change
Indigenous youth take global stage in Madrid to voice climate change worries 
A slate-blue sea stretches out on the horizon. In the foreground, green grass is dotted with wildflowers.
Culture
For some Alaska Natives, the Bering Sea and an international border makes it hard to go home
Rick Desautel, flanked by his daughter and his wife, Linda (right), celebrates his acquittal of illegal hunting charges outside the provincial courthouse in Nelson, British Columbia, in March 2017.
Justice
Canada says the Sinixt tribe is extinct. The tribe’s American descendants disagree.
Olga Letykai, one of Far East Russia's best known throat singers, this summer in Chukotka.
Culture
Beyonce? No. But her throat singing soars
A handmade walrus skin boats lies along the shore of the Bering Sea. These boats, also known as bidarkas, are used for hunting marine mammals. In the summer, teams of men and women race them.
Culture
Arctic cultures could be under threat as mining and oil come to their lands