Michelle P. Fulcher

Colorado Matters Radio & Digital Producer

@MPFulcher[email protected]

Michelle Fulcher is a producer for Colorado Matters. She has reported at a Denver business weekly, at the Colorado Springs Gazette and The Denver Post where she served as a state and local government reporter, an assigning editor, city editor and national/international editor.

Education:
Bachelor's degree in journalism, University of Colorado Boulder.

Professional background:
Michelle first joined Colorado Public Radio in 2007 and was part of the "Colorado Matters" team for five years. She then worked at CU-Boulder as communications director for the College of Media, Communication and Information before returning to CPR in 2016. Michelle began her reporting career at a Denver business weekly, spent five years at the Colorado Springs Gazette and later moved to The Denver Post where she served as a state and local government reporter, an assigning editor, city editor and national/international editor.

Awards:
As city editor at The Denver Post, Michelle helped lead the newspaper to a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the mass shootings at Columbine High School.

La Malinche
Colorado Matters

The mystery of La Malinche

Was she villain, victim, or somewhere in between? Five hundred years ago a young indigenous slave known as La Malinche was forced into service as an interpreter for the Spanish forces that conquered Mexico. Through the centuries, her name has been uttered as an epithet, or spoken reverently by those who viewed her as a hero. In the 1960s, she became an icon of Chicana feminism.
By Michelle P. Fulcher
Ernesto R. Acevedo-Muñoz

How to tell ‘West Side Story’ for a modern audience

When director Steven Spielberg was remaking “West Side Story,” he turned to members of the Latinx community to make the film more culturally and racially sensitive. Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz, the chair of cinema studies at CU Boulder, was part of that committee. He also wrote “West Side Story as Cinema: The Making and Impact of an American Masterpiece.”
By Michelle P. Fulcher
Funky Thistle new plant species
Colorado Matters

Sorting through confusion to identify the funky thistle, a new species of plant in Colorado

You’d think in this era of modern science, there’d be nothing new under the sun. Well, get ready for a newly discovered species of plant. And it’s called the funky thistle. It lives in some of the alpine meadows here in Colorado. Jennifer Ackerfield is head curator of natural history collections and associate director of biodiversity research at the Denver Botanic Gardens.
By Michelle P. Fulcher
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Colorado Congressmen on opposites sides of the aisle unite on policy

We hear a lot about the political divide in Washington, D.C., but that’s not the whole story. Today, an interview with Republican Ken Buck and Democrat Joe Neguse, who both represent Colorado. They talk about their collaboration around policies like keeping Big Tech in check and ensuring that a Japanese internment camp in Colorado joins the national park system.
By Michelle P. Fulcher
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Colorado Matters

A busy year in space

This year is shaping up to be a critical year in space development. NASA is headed back to the moon and private companies are getting into the action like never before. We speak with astronomer Doug Duncan, who is back for our regular conversation on space science, about the Colorado-built Orion spacecraft and why it’s returning to the moon. We also talk about a milestone for the mission to Mars.
By Michelle P. Fulcher