Sativa Peterson
Senior Producer - The ShowSativa Peterson is a journalist, librarian and archivist.
From 2017-2022 Peterson worked as the collection manager for the Arizona Newspaper Project and the Arizona Historical Digital Newspaper Project, special collections of the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records.
Between 2017-2019 Peterson was the project director for a National Digital Newspaper Program grant awarded to the state of Arizona through a partnership between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Peterson helped digitize over 100,000 pages of historic newspaper content for the Chronicling America and Arizona Memory Project websites.
Her work has appeared in local and national publications such as New Times, BUST and Modern Loss and she has hosted the workshop, “Time Travel Through Historic Newspapers,” at Valley bookstore Changing Hands.
Peterson’s short personal documentary, “The Slow Escape,” originally released in 1998, is now on the Criterion Channel.
Peterson’s first job in high school was at KINO 1230 AM in her hometown, Winslow, Arizona. Peterson worked afternoon and evening shifts spinning county music in the high desert.
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The list of voting center locations in the Valley includes city halls, churches, libraries. But, one voting center that was a bit more unusual — the Messinger Indian School Mortuary. -
If you were a ghost, where is it that you might hang out in the afterlife? For one early trailblazer of Phoenix, long deceased, that answer may be the Arizona Historical Society. -
Today’s hidden gem is the Jokake Inn’s bell tower. The Pueblo-revival style building is all that remains of the once legendary Jokake Inn, which got its start in the 1920s as a tearoom. -
Casa Blanca Inn began as the winter home of the Kellogg family, before its eventual transformation into a Moroccan-themed resort complete with an onion-domed restaurant, the Sultan’s Table. -
Camelback Inn Chapel is very modest in size and would be easy to miss this piece of the resort’s history. But, it remains relatively unchanged roughly 85 years later. -
Early on in the Valley's existence, sunshine was being equated with health and wellness. This drew many people from the East and Midwest to Arizona's resorts. including Castle Hot Springs. -
Between 1912 and 1952 the Olympics included an arts competition known as the “Pentathlon of the Muses.” -
If you’ve walked or cycled along the Grand Canal between Seventh Avenue and Seventh Street in the past few days you may have noticed some bubblegum pink blobs stuck to the sides of the canal walls. -
The Arizona Department of Transportation is asking Arizonans to help pick names for three new snowplows being added to northern Arizona's fleet. -
The Show’s Sativa Peterson visited Isabel Cazares, librarian at the Arizona Historical Society, where Valley menus from throughout the decades have been collected and talked about what we can learn from these menus.
