Georgia Kerrigan
2025 Intern, Up To DateGeorgia Kerrigan is the 2025 summer intern for Up To Date.
A Kansas City, Missouri, native, Georgia is home as a KCUR intern before she starts her junior year at Northwestern University, where she is studying journalism and sociology. She has spent the past two years as a reporter, producer and editor for her school's audio publication, WNUR News, and will return in the fall as the co-news director.
Email her at gkerrigan@kcur.org
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After the Congress clawed back $1.1 billion in federal funding to NPR and PBS, Morning Edition host Leila Fadel explains why public media must prevail as a source of independent, free-to-access, independent reporting. -
The Kansas City Public Library announced a "Strategic Plan" to meet community needs, funded by a new grant. Anyone can weigh in on what they want it to include. -
At Dozer, kids put down the screens to play in the sand. A Children’s Mercy pediatrician says it is one way to restore family connection amid "technoference." -
RideKC buses are each already equipped with four interior and four exterior cameras. New AI-powered cameras are being installed to detect possible security threats and automatically alert authorities. -
Kansas City's homicide rate decreased in 2024, but the numbers still leave cause for concern. Local experts want residents to better understand the conditions that drive violent crime — and what will fix them. -
Kansas City first responders get bit, spit on and cursed at while on the job. In one recent case, a firefighter paramedic died after being stabbed in the chest. Increased attention to these incidents has sparked increased protective training by the Kansas City Fire Department, and proposed federal legislation from a Missouri U.S. Senator. -
IRIS workers say they were misled about pay and aren't being treated fairly by their employer zTrip. Drivers demanded the right to unionize last year. -
Missouri ordered retroactive limits on property assessment increases in Jackson County. But, according to county assessor Gail McCann Beatty, that order means "inequities will remain." -
Addiction resources go unused if people aren’t willing to talk about substance use in the first place. A local nonprofit, First Call, is helping Kansas Citians find available support. -
President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” cuts about $1 trillion in federal Medicaid funding. Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley helped push for the inclusion of money for rural hospitals, but experts say it's just "a drop in the bucket" — and could force even more providers to close.
