Cynthia Poten

Producer

Cynthia Poten is the producer of KIDE-FM’s Health Matters, a 5-minute weekly news report on health issues relevant to the Hoopa Tribe of California that has been on the air for 10 years. Other programs completed for KIDE include Poetry Basket, a monthly 30-minute reading of poems from around the world; Being Indian in America, a four-hour series; What They are Saying, Hearts and Minds of U.S. Veterans, a one-hour documentary; and selected readings from Medicine Trails by Mavis McCovey/John Salter and The Militarization of Indian Country by Winona LaDuke. She founded the Delaware Riverkeeper Network and served as the Delaware Riverkeeper from 1988 to 1996. She has worked as a free-lance journalist, teacher, program coordinator, puppeteer and landscape gardener.

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