Colleen Holden
InternColleen Holden is a student reporting intern, and part-time local host of NPR’s All Things Considered. She joined the station in 2024.
Originating from the south suburbs of Chicago, Colleen is a senior at Illinois State University studying journalism. She also works with the ISU campus radio station, WZND, where she previously served as the station’s News Director, and will start the position of News and Sports Operations Director in the fall.
Colleen aspires to continue her reporting career post-graduation, with an emphasis on health and science related broadcasting. She also wishes to attend graduate school and end her career teaching communications at the collegiate level.
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Música, baile, karaoke, paseos en limusina y celebración llenaron el campus de Normal de Eastview Christian Church el viernes pasado. Estos son elementos de un baile de graduación estándar, pero este evento estuvo lejos de ser estándar. -
Night to Shine is a prom-themed party held at hundreds of churches nationwide. The event is for people aged 14 and up who live with a disability.
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Cancer survivor Erica Austin, of Springfield, is Illinois' ambassador for VOICES of Black Women. The nationwide study led by the American Cancer Society aims to address disproportional mortality rates among Black women diagnosed with cancer and other chronic disease. -
The high-tech simulator recreates emergency delivery and postpartum scenarios for OSF's mobile unit serving Central Illinois maternal care deserts. -
The health care industry has come a long way in 35 years, and retiring Carle BroMenn and Carle Eureka leader Colleen Kannaday has seen all of it. -
Bloomington author Jasmine Shegog's new book, "The Power of Reframe," is out. The book focuses on the concept of healing by reframing your mindset into one of proactivity — claiming healing starts with a choice to do so, rather than closure. -
The FAIR Act seeks to establish a state public defenders office to ease equity gaps for under-resourced counties, cap caseloads and provide oversight and advocacy. Illinois is one of five states without such an office. -
As drivers prepare for a cruise down Route 66 during next year's centennial, a trail extension in southern McLean County will get bicyclists one step closer to a continuous safe path between Bloomington and St. Louis just beside the Mother Road. -
The City of Bloomington is seeking survey responses gathering feedback about the 134-year-old Miller Park Zoo's next chapter. -
Illinois State University's athletic training staff held an emergency training session with staff and students, inviting OSF HealthCare providers and trainers from local high schools for the first time.
