Stephanie Wolf

Producer

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Stephanie is a producer for CPR News, and produces Purplish as part of the Colorado Capitol News Alliance.

Education:
Bachelor’s degree from St. Mary’s College of California.

Professional background:

Stephanie started at Colorado Public Radio in 2013, producing stories for CPR’s first full multi-media news bureau focused on arts and culture. Soon afterwards she joined CPR's Colorado Matters team as a producer and reporter, and later became CPR’s arts reporter.

Starting in 2020, Stephanie reported for Louisville Public Media on arts, culture, religion, as well as protests against police brutality and several weather-related disasters. She co-reported and co-wrote the award-winning radio documentary “A Critical Moment,” about how Germany and the U.S. teach school children about past atrocities, and why. She moved back to Colorado in early 2023. Her freelance journalism has been published in several outlets including The Texas Tribune, KEXP, The Colorado Sun, Whistledown Productions and Boulder Reporting Lab. Stephanie returned to Colorado Public Radio in 2025.

Prior to journalism, Stephanie was a professional ballet dancer with companies such as the Minnesota Ballet, James Sewell Ballet, The Metropolitan Opera and Wonderbound, formerly known as Ballet Nouveau Colorado.

Awards:

Stephanie was a 2021 Arthur F. Burns fellow, spending several months reporting across Germany. She won a 2023 RIAS Berlin Media Prize, Education Writers Association Award and regional Murrow Award for the documentary “A Critical Moment.” Her reporting has also been acknowledged with SPJ regional awards, a Hearken Champions of Curiosity Award and a PRINDI Award.

Colorado Matters

The Americans with Disabilities Act became law 35 years ago, but advocates say there’s still work to do

The Americans with Disabilities Act became law 35 five years ago. At the signing ceremony President George H.W. Bush thanked the bill’s champions, acknowledging the 43 million Americans with disabilities. That was in 1990. Today,  the number of Americans with disabilities is more than 70 million. The ADA is a civil rights and equal access law. CPR’s Stephanie Wolf reached out to Coloradans with disabilities to ask what the ADA means to them. Seeds for the law were planted in our state. And she found the 35th anniversary isn’t necessarily a reason for total celebration.
By Stephanie Wolf