HELLO

My name is Tressa Versteeg (she/her). I am an independent audio reporter, producer, and writer.

I proudly hail from Iowa, South Dakota and Wyoming. I currently live on the Penobscot Bay of Maine. I am a graduate of Macalester College and the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies.

Say hi at tressaversteeg [at] gmail [dot] com

now

Documenting the journey of a candlepin bowling alley manager

Writing for the Island Ad-Vantages and The Weekly Packet

before

Reported and produced work for Burn It All Down, Degrees: real talk about planet-saving careers from Environmental Defense Fund, PBS American Portrait, NPR Morning Edition, WVXU Cincinnati, Duolingo Podcast, WBUR Boston’s Only A Game, Back To School In Maine Podcast, Spotify’s Lenny Says, WHYY Philadelphia’s The Pulse, Wisconsin Public Radio, Wyoming Public Media, The HumaNature Podcast, WERU Community Radio, and the out•land•dish Podcast.

Edited and assisted with Wondery’s The Man in the Window and Over My Dead Body: Fox Lake, The Public Health and Epidemiology Careers Podcast, NATAL Podcast Summit, Surge: An ICU Nurse on the Front Lines of COVID-19, BMO’s Macro Horizons, and NBC-Universal’s SYFY Wire.

BEFORE BEFORE

Rolled thousands of croissants.

Taught kids how to divide fractions, wield words, and listen to each other.

Rode my bicycle around the Great Lakes with the Solidago Riders. We made videos about community-based change.