Maayan Silver
News ReporterMaayan Silver has been a reporter with WUWM’s News Team since 2018. She joined WUWM as a volunteer at Lake Effect in 2016, while she was a practicing criminal defense attorney.
She believes everyone has an interesting story to share and is driven to get people from all backgrounds and perspectives on the air. Her work has been featured on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, Here and Now, and she’s been a guest with BBC Newshour, On Point, The Takeaway and the NPR Politics Podcast. She was part of NPR’s Political Reporting Partnership during the 2020 presidential election.
Maayan has a musical spirit, loves learning about different cultures and trying new foods, and has lapsed on her goal of making Milwaukee’s best hummus.
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This is your notice to head out to the great outdoors Thursday night for the Hunter's moon — look up and unplug. Ebony Javan, one Milwaukee woman who's always plugged into the moon, shares her story.
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We asked municipal clerks who administer elections in Wisconsin what issues they're facing and what they wish people better understood about elections.
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Historian John Gurda walks through the history and landmarks along Milwaukee's North Avenue to help us understand how it became what it is today.
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Metcalfe Park Community Bridges is a resident-led non-profit that supports neighborhood investment and revitalization and has its office on North Avenue.
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Voters in the key swing state of Wisconsin talk about what’s keeping them up at night when they think of politics and the November election.
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North Avenue cuts through a wide swath of neighborhoods that both Republicans and Democrats want to turn out to vote this year.
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Voters along the same street stretching from Milwaukee to the suburbs talk about what's swaying them -- and what's not -- in the critical swing state of Wisconsin.
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North Avenue in Milwaukee cuts through just about every major Wisconsin voting bloc. Republican former Gov. Scott Walker and Democratic strategist Thad Nation talk about its political importance.
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NPR's Ari Shapiro and WUWM's Maayan Silver spoke with voters along a 15-mile road that cuts through Milwaukee area segregated neighborhoods as election season continues in this crucial swing state.
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In Wisconsin, a growing number of conservatives who dislike Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump are thinking about whether they could actually vote for Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.