DW Gibson
Producer, The ConversationDW Gibson is the author of several books including the award-winning The Edge Becomes the Center: An Oral History of Gentrification. He shared a National Magazine Award for his work on “This is the Story of One Block in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn,” for New York Magazine.
His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and Harper's Magazine. His previous radio work includes co-hosting the podcast “There Goes the Neighborhood,” guest hosting various programs for WNYC in New York, and reading original essays for All Things Considered and Live from Here.
For 20 years he served as director of the writers residency program at Art Omi, and he co-founded Sangam House, a writers residency in India, along with Arshia Sattar. He joined Hawaiʻi Public Radio in 2025 and can be reached at dgibson@hawaiipublicradio.org.
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The Conversation's DW Gibson spoke to Chief Global Officer for the University of Hawaiʻi System Brent White about helping international students navigate Trump's recent policy changes for student visas. -
Trump calls for mining the sea floor in new executive order; Scientists have discovered a new species of caterpillar in the Waiʻanae Mountains, nicknamed "the bone collector." -
King David Kalākaua Middle School students Marliena Domer, Audrey Maderazo, and Shaylene Padron took home first place in the performance category and a ticket to the national competition in Washington, D.C. — but their trip is up in the air, because of deep cuts to the National Endowment for the Humanities. -
Lawmakers rush to pass bills before the end of the legislative session; HPR hears from the winners of the Hawaiʻi History Day competition -
HPR’s DW Gibson spoke with Monty Pereira of Watanabe Floral about how tariffs might affect flower prices as the local industry enters its busiest month of the year. -
Tariffs are impacting the local floral industry and popular Hawaiʻi fashion brands; A flock of endangered kingfishers has been introduced to Palmyra Atoll -
The Conversation's DW Gibson spoke with Matthew Loke, administrator of the state’s Agricultural Development Division, about the forces behind increased egg prices. -
Maxx Phillips of the Center for Biological Diversity discusses President Donald Trump's executive order allowing commercial fishing in the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument; Matthew Loke, administrator of the state Agricultural Development Division, on increasing egg prices and significant price changes at the grocery store as tariffs take effect -
We thought we'd check in to see how the headlines have been affecting your lives and your budgets, and what better way to do that than at the grocery store? In this ongoing series, HPR plans to go to various grocery stores and learn more about what people are seeing amid Trump's tariff hikes. -
Long before Trump began using tariffs as a bargaining strategy, the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi wrestled with the question of how to use tariffs. Historian and author Ronald Williams Jr. spoke with The Conversation about the long history of tariffs in Hawaiʻi, which he says charted the path to annexation.
