Audrey Nowakowski
Lake Effect Host / ProducerAudrey is a host, producer and reporter for Lake Effect. She is involved with every aspect of the show — from conducting interviews, editing audio, posting web stories and mixing the show together. Audrey is also co-executive producer of Live at Lake Effect, a filmed music series from WUWM's Lake Effect.
Before becoming a full-time producer, Audrey interned for Lake Effect starting in 2014 and joined the team full-time in the spring of 2015.
Audrey is a graduate of Cardinal Stritch University where she majored in Communication Arts and minored in History and English.
Contact Audrey at: nowakows@uwm.edu
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Research into sickle cell disease is underway across the country, but some of the most important work is being done here in Milwaukee with Dr. Prithu Sundd and the Versiti Blood Research Institute.
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Co-written by Milwaukee native Bri LeRose, "The People's Joker" is heavily based on the director, co-writer and lead actor Vera Drew’s life and relationship with queerness and comedy.
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A recent report from the Wisconsin Policy Forum shows rising numbers of traffic related deaths in Milwaukee County, especially for Black residents, sharply contrasts the statewide trend where traffic deaths have been on the decline for decades.
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Carol & Diane Amour of the Tribute Documentary Group join Lake Effect's Audrey Nowakowski to share more about future plans for the large rotating powwow exhibit at the Milwaukee Public Museum — "A Tribute to Survival."
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Lake Effect's Books and Beyond series visits the Rare Books Room at Central Library in downtown Milwaukee to explore some of the unique materials housed there.
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There is both a positive and thorny legacy that the 1997 film “Chasing Amy” has in the LGBTQ community. The new documentary "Chasing Chasing Amy" provides a new outlook on the complicated classic indie, both for its director Sav Rodgers and the people who made it.
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To celebrate Lesbian Visibility Week, The Wisconsin LGBTQ History Project created a free lesbian history exhibit as well as hosting other events in the Milwaukee area.
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When Franco Stevens realized she was a lesbian, there was hardly any representation of queer women. So in 1990, she decided to change that and founded "Curve" — the best-selling lesbian lifestyle magazine that still exists today.
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Lake Effect’s Audrey Nowakowski and Milwaukee musician Trapper Schoepp bring you "Live at Lake Effect" — a filmed music series featuring local and nationally touring musicians performing in the Lake Effect Surf Shop. This episode features Milwaukee's own Buffalo Nichols.
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Wisconsin has an impressive, homegrown motorcycle racing scene that’s supported many riders from childhood well into adulthood as professional racers. One of those racers was West Allis native Charlotte Kainz. The documentary "Angels of Dirt" traces Kainz's meteoric rise in Flat Track racing and the larger community she impacted.