Joyce Hackel spends much of her day tracking down the right person to tell the nuanced stories that help explain today’s world.  Joyce started writing deadline copies from a DC sweatshop called States News Service. After reporting one story too many about Congressional dysfunction (it was bad even then), she ditched the Capitol Hill press pass and bought a one-way ticket to El Salvador. There, she wrote for The Christian Science Monitor and filed freelance radio pieces from a closet lined with egg cartons.  (She also met a British guy she’d eventually marry, but that’s another story…) Eventually, she became a staff correspondent for Monitor Radio and was dispatched to Africa for four years.  She filed from more than a dozen African countries, reporting on clan warfare in Somalia,  genocide in Rwanda, and Nelson Mandela’s landmark election.  She won a few awards for her Africa radio pieces and headed to the University of Michigan as a journalism fellow.   Since then,  Joyce has been a senior editor at Living on Earth and edited WBUR’s Morning Edition.