Sascha Raiyn reports on education, children and families at 101.9 WDET. She has worked as a reporter/producer for the WSHU Public Radio Group serving Connecticut and New York, as an Investigative News Producer for WJBK Fox 2 and at the Detroit Free Press.

She is a native Detroiter who grew up listening to news and music programming on 101.9 WDET. She studied at the University of Michigan Dearborn.

StoryCorps Detroit Podcast: Is this Detroit Institution Under-Rated? [PHOTOS]

StoryCorps Sean Ryan Everett is the executive director of the Detroit Public Library Foundation and Crystal Powell is the board...

StoryCorps Detroit Podcast: How is the Force Today?

  StorCorp   When Detroit Institute of Arts Security Guard Roderick Walker greets the Museum's Director, Salvador Salort-Pons, he asks an...

StoryCorps Detroit Podcast: Chalk Drawings on the Hudson Building

StoryCorps Maurice Greenia, Jr. is an artist and performer from Detroit. In the mid-1990s, he decided to brighten up the boarded-over display windows...

StoryCorps Detroit Podcast: What Happens When a Father is Deported?

  StoryCorps Diana Lara’s father was deported to Mexico when she was thirteen years old. Lara, her mother, and her...

StoryCorps Detroit Podcast: Not Ready to Die

StoryCorps Detroiter Roy Sims was diagnosed with a serious heart condition that doctors told him would be his demise.  "It...

New Book Strives to Make Muslim American Children Feel At Home At Home

Shayma Mustafa Shayma Mustafa  released her first book last week. It’s called Excuse Me Ma’am, Excuse Me Sir – I’m...

StoryCorps Detroit Podcast: “I Work Like a Woman”

StoryCorps Detroiter Carlena Murdy worked in an auto-parts factory at a time when being a woman in a trade-labor job...

CuriosiD: Why Isn’t Google’s Street View of Detroit Up-to-date?

I’m looking to transition to Detroit to start a new business and it’s difficult to determine the quality and density...

1966 Northern High School Walkout Inspires Musical and Student Activism

In 1966, two thousand students walked out of Detroit’s Northern High School to protest a lack of resources and the...

Mosaic Youth Theatre tells the Story of 1966 Northern H.S. Walkout

Mosaic Youth Theatre When we hear the words “youth theater” we may not think of the expansive, professional productions Mosaic...

Education Lobbying in Michigan Post-DeVos

Before becoming the U.S. Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos was best known for the money she spent promoting “school choice”...

MOCAD Offers Youth Scifi, Architecture and Comic Writing Mashup

Middle and high school students are invited to explore the intersection of science fiction and architecture Saturday at the Museum of...