Chris Welter
Managing Editor, Eichelberger Center for Community VoicesChris Welter is the Managing Editor at The Eichelberger Center for Community Voices at WYSO.
Chris started in radio in 2017 when he trained at the Eichelberger Center for Community Voices. Most recently, he worked as a substitute host and the Environment Reporter at WYSO.
He is a graduate of Antioch College, where he edited the campus newspaper, The Record. He now sits on the newspaper's advisory board.
Chris is a lifelong Ohioan. He was born and raised in Columbus and lives in Yellow Springs with his partner and their cats and dog. He moonlights as a mediocre disc golfer and loves cooking, hiking, and reading about Ohio history.
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From Blue Jacket's adoption to where Tecumseh was born, there's a lot of false mythology about Shawnee history in what we now call southwest Ohio. This episode explores the region’s narrative through a more accurate, inclusive lens. -
Local politicians are reacting to the shooting that occurred Saturday evening at a rally for former president Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. -
In this episode, we meet a visionary leader from the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma working to reconnect her community with their homelands. -
In our upcoming series, we will provide a perspective on the history of the region we now call Ohio that very few of us learned in school. We'll put the experiences of Miami, Shawnee, Wyandotte, and other American Indian people at the center of a refreshed version of the state’s complicated past and undecided future. -
Listen to a Central State University alum share her story of celebrating graduation despite the 1974 tornado tearing through Xenia and Wilberforce just weeks prior. She recalled proudly marching in graduation, and how her father was an architect who designed some of the rebuilt structures. -
Lewis was born in Sabina in Clinton County. -
The train derailment disaster in East Palestine and the near-train derailment disaster in Springfield earlier this year has put a new focus on how hazardous materials are transported across our region. -
Tipp City school board member and nazi saluter Anne Zakkour said in a statement “My reaction last night was symbolic and a sarcastic gesture of submission to a board officer acting as a dictator.” -
Climate change increases the frequency and intensity of extreme weather. -
A biodigester business called Renergy in Greene County's Bath Township will permanently close amidst mounting fines and lawsuits.
