Maddie Bender
Executive Producer, The ConversationMaddie Bender is a science, health, and technology journalist. She has contributed print, digital, and audio stories to outlets including The New York Times, The Daily Beast, Scientific American, Smithsonian and VICE.
She provided production assistance on <i>This Is Our Hawaiʻi</i>, HPR's first narrative podcast, and joined <i>The Conversation</i> in 2024.
She holds a master's degree in epidemiology from the Yale School of Public Health. When not editing out "uhs" and "ums" in interviews, you can find her baking sourdough and teaching group fitness classes.
Contact her at mbender@hawaiipublicradio.org.
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The Conversation spoke to Kwok Fai Cheung, a professor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, who researches the link between earthquakes in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska and tsunamis in Hawaiʻi. -
Hawaiʻi's Burmese responds to the devastating earthquake in Myanmar; The Hawaiʻi Bicycling League calls attention to a rise in fatalities among pedestrians and bike riders -
The Conversation broadcast live from the Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden in South Kona on Friday. So we wanted to know how ferals and invasives are impacting life there. HPR talked to Executive Director Lou Putzel about the challenges that come with managing an ethnobotanical garden. -
Today, the Conversation broadcasts lives from the Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden on Hawaiʻi Island with stories on the history of Parker Ranch and biodiversity. -
The Hui Mo‘olelo Film Festival brings together animated films that draw upon a series of oral histories recorded by Lahaina community members after the 2023 Maui wildfires. The nonprofit Maui Public Art Corps is organizing the festival, in partnership with the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa and Waiwai Collective. -
Kūpuna with mobility issues face unique challenges during a disaster; The Lāhainā Film Festival comes to Oʻahu -
Mary Louise Kelly, a co-host of NPR's "All Things Considered," spoke to The Conversation about her commitment to journalism despite the challenges news media face today, including funding. -
EPA head Lee Zeldin tours Red Hill and Maui burn-zone; The state is looking for feedback on where it should plant new coral to support reef health -
An ʻIolani School senior recently took home a top prize at the nation’s oldest science research competition for high school students. Logan Lee traveled to Washington, D.C., earlier this month for the Society for Science's Regeneron Science Talent Search, where he presented his research on mosquitoes. -
Glen Fukushima with the Center for American Progress discusses the transformation of national security in the Indo-Pacific; UHERO data scientist Trey Gordner examines how construction liability litigation is hampering Hawaiʻi's housing market
