This Conversation

SEE EPISODES BELOW! Dr. Teresa Keller began hosting This Conversation each week in 2009 on WEHC-FM, Emory. Keller's broadcast career began many years ago at WCYB-TV, an NBC affiliate in Bristol, VA where she worked for seven years as a talk show host, reporter, and anchor of the noon news. She also spent time working in television newsrooms in Denver and San Diego, and worked as a contributing reporter for WVTF public radio in Roanoke, VA. As a professor of Mass Communications at Emory & Henry College, she garnered two statewide teaching awards: the 2003 Virginia Professor of the Year award, presented by the Carnegie Foundation, and the Virginia Council on Higher Education’s Outstanding Faculty Award in 2010. She is author of Television News: The Art and How-to of Video Storytelling -- now in its 4th edition. While at Emory & Henry, she wrote the FCC application for WEHC-FM, now a 9,000 watt College and Community station that went on the air in 1992. She served as a board member of Holston Valley Broadcasting Corporation for more than a decade and spent two terms on the Board of Directors of the Virginia Association of Broadcasters. Many earlier episodes of the broadcast are available at https://archive.org/details/ThisConversation.

This Conversation is a commentary podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 193 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  HOW THIS RIVER MUSSEL AFFECTS YOU, plus more re SW Virginia

  Aug 23, 202628 min

  This week's conversation is with Brad Kreps of The Nature Conservancy where we learn about how our local river mussels clean water and protect fish and humans. However, they're endangered. Conserving these mussels, land, and the exceptional biodiversity of this area is the work of Brad Kreps and the global organization he works for. How and why does he maintain optimism and how did a boy from coastal Virginia become such a devotee of the mountains? Learn more: https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/where-we-work/united-states/virginia/stories-in-virginia/clinch-valley-program/

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  FREE FROZEN EMBRYOS -- and an IVF BABY

  Aug 11, 202628 min

  "Free Frozen Embryos -- and an IVF Baby." Tracey Mercier and her husband Greg had every challenge imaginable in wanting to have a baby. For a while they had given up. Then, a series of events presented the possibility that they could have a child. With pursuits of doctors and treatments from here to California -- and across the border to Mexico, the Merciers found a total of 5 embryos. Two failed. Of the other three, one became their daughter Lily. You'll hear why the trip to Mexico resulted from restrictions in the United States. From her experience, Tracy Mercier has become politically active. In this conversation, she speaks out about the proposed amendment to Virginia's Constitution on the November ballot in the midterm elections on November 3rd. The change is supposed to protect personal decisions in a wide range of reproductive health care. Virginiaans will choose YES for protection of personal freedom vs. NO, which could result in leaving the decision to state government. She says VOTE YES on Amendment #1 on Nov. 3. More information from Virginia's Department of Elections https://www.elections.virginia.gov/election-law/proposed-constitutional-amendment-question-1/

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  Who should decide on Abortion decisions?

  Aug 7, 202628 min

  Han Jones is campaign director with Virginians for Reproductive Freedom, an organization that is encouraging Virginians to vote YES on a proposed state constitutional amendment to assure that the government does not have a role in a woman's reproductive health decisions. The decision will be made in the November 3 mid-term elections. This interview explores the views of the organization. Links below give more detail about VfRF and about the language of the amendment. https://ballotpedia.org/Virginia_Question_1,_Right_to_Reproductive_Freedom_Amendment_(2026) https://va4reprofreedom.org/

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  Arrests and deportations? Immigration Law in our area.

  Jul 28, 202628 min

  Dan Gray, Immigration Lawyer with the Garza Law Firm discusses his interactions with immigrants in the area who have been arrested, detained, and are facing deportation issues. Families are affected, but, as Gray explains, the community is affected as well. Gray's legal action takes place in the larger national context of increased arrests and more aggressive tactics of the Trump Administration. Contact for Dan Gray via https://garzalaw.com/

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  VOLUNTEERING FOR THE IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY

  Jul 19, 202627 min

  Kindergarten teacher Jessica Watts volunteers her time and resourses on behalf of immigrants whose families are caught up in deportation and detention issues. She describes the effect of enhanced enforcement on families and communities, and talks about why this issue is meaningful to her.

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