Lindsey Foat
Community Engagement Producer
Ms. Foat regularly refers to herself in third person, although not while she is reporting on education and various topics for KCPT. She hails from Colorado and attended journalism school at the University of Missouri – Columbia. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: community engagement, history, kitsch, public media, and cats.
Stories by Lindsey Foat
From ‘Half the Sky’ to ‘A Path Appears’
Two years ago, PBS stations across the country broadcast “Half The Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide,” a documentary dedicated to examining gender equality. Based on the book by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, the film examines issues including sex trafficking, maternal mortality, education and economic equality for women and…
Death Cafes: Discussing death, and especially life
On a Wednesday evening in October, about 20 people gathered in a St. Joseph, Missouri, coffee shop to talk about death. It’s called a Death Cafe, and it’s part of an international movement to get people talking about death and dying. It started in the U.K. in 2011 and, soon after that, hospice social worker…
Luncheon honoring Madeleine Albright delves into status of Missouri women
Eighteen years to the day that Madeleine Albright was nominated to be the first female Secretary of State, she reflected on her career and the challenges facing women and girls all over the world at the 22nd annual Women’s Foundation luncheon in Kansas City, Missouri. “The problem of gender discrimination isn’t limited to any one…
Bite-sized tales of Thanksgiving from Tell KC
Tell KC, a reporting and engagement collaboration with KCPT and KCUR, asked folks to distill Turkey Day down to just six words. More than 30 people, including Swihart, accepted the challenge.
If at first your experiment gets blown up in a rocket, try, try again
Sitting at a lab table over the lunch hour at St. Peter’s School in Kansas City, Missouri, a group of eighth graders are loading freeze dried E.coli bacteria into plastic tubes. It’s all part of a special package destined for the International Space Station. And it’s not the first time students Holden O’Keefe, Eamon Shaw…
Tell us about your Thanksgiving, in six words
Share your insights and experiences with KCPT and KCUR.
Separate but not equal: KU professor explores university’s complicated past
Professor Emeritus Bill Tuttle is himself part of a complicated legacy of race relations at the University of Kansas and the surrounding community. In 1968, Tuttle taught the University’s first ever African American studies course, and has devoted much of his career to examining equality in the progressive burg of Lawrence, Kansas. “I think there…
Found Footage Fest returns with VHS gold, including a KC find
Growing up in a really small town in Wisconsin, Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher found their fun at nearby thrift stores. “I remember we used to buy answering machines, eject the tapes and listen to people’s incoming and outgoing messages,” Prueher said. Everything changed for Pickett and Prueher when VHS tapes started showing up at…
Educators working down to the wire to defeat Missouri Amendment 3
First thing tomorrow morning, Andrea Flinders plans to send a mass text message to members of the local branch of the American Federation of Teachers reminding them to vote. “I think we will get a good turnout from our members,” said Flinders, who is the president of the local branch of the American Federation of…