Sativa Peterson
Senior Producer - The Show | [email protected]Sativa 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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Jenn McKinlay writes a lot of books. She’s published 60 now, in fact. And, now, for the first time, one of them is being adapted for TV. -
Rep. Stephanie Stahl Hamilton found herself at the center of a major controversy at the Arizona Capitol just a few years ago, dubbed “Biblegate.” -
The Show spoke with Chandler Republican Julie Willoughby for "Ditat Deus" series. -
Let’s meet a deeply religious Democrat: House Minority Leader Oscar De Los Santos. He told The Show his identity as a Christian is fundamentally tied up in his work as a public servant. -
The Show spoke to Arizona Senator T.J. Shope. A Republican from Coolidge who’s been in the Legislature for the last 14 years, Shope is what we might call a “cradle Catholic.” -
Ditat Deus, which is Arizona’s state motto, means “God Enriches." ASU professor Evan Berry talks about where it came from and what it means in today's government. -
If you’ve ever watched our state Legislature in session, you might notice something you don’t hear that often in American society anymore: A prayer. -
Librarians could end up in prison under a new Republican proposal being debated at the state Capitol. -
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