John Dankosky

John Dankosky (August 14) is a radio journalist and moderator, who is currently Director of News and Audio for the public radio program Science Friday. During a 25-year career at Connecticut Public Radio, he founded the national award-winning program Where We Live.

Biography
Originally from Pittsburgh, Dankosky is a veteran public radio broadcaster, who began his career in 1988 at WDUQ. After moving to Connecticut in 1994, Dankosky founded the daily talk shows Where We Live and The Wheelhouse, co-founded the New England News Collaborative and its weekly news program NEXT. He has also reported for National Public Radio, worked as editor and host for the collaborative public radio project America Amplified, edited award-winning documentaries on Connecticut history, 9/11, and the mental health of children, and has co-produced recordings of traditional musicians who made their homes in Connecticut.

Since 2011, he has been a primary fill-in host for Science Friday, and currently acts as the program's news director. He has hosted the podcasts Steady Habits and Untold for the online news organization The Connecticut Mirror, and currently serves as moderator for the live conversation series "In The Room." He is a frequent moderator for The Connecticut Forum, The International Festival of Arts & Ideas, and narrator for Christmas Angelicus, the annual holiday concert performed by Chorus Angelicus.

Dankosky has worked as a journalism professor at Quinnipiac University and Central Connecticut State University, where he served as the first Robert C. Vance Endowed Chair in Journalism. He is a certified yoga instructor, and works with his wife at their studio LAM Yoga in New Hartford, CT.