Chris Welter
Chris Welter is an Environmental Reporter at WYSO through Report for America. In 2017, he completed the radio training program at WYSO's Eichelberger Center for Community Voices. Prior to joining the team at WYSO, he did boots-on-the-ground conservation work and policy research on land-use issues in southwest Ohio as a Miller Fellow with the Tecumseh Land Trust.
He is a graduate of Antioch College with a self-designed B.S. in Environmental Journalism and a French Language & Culture focus. He edited the The Antioch Record and later served as chair of the newspaper's advisory board. Through the college's cooperative education program, he interned with an environmental education non-profit in Ypsilanti, MI and worked as a paralegal assistant at a criminal defense firm in Chicago and a bankruptcy center in Philadelphia.
Chris is a lifelong Ohioan, born and raised in Columbus and currently living in Yellow Springs with his two cats, Beaver and Franklin. He moonlights as a mediocre disc golfer and also loves to cook, hike, and read about Ohio history.
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The mass shooting, protests, and COVID-19 has made security complicated in Dayton's arts and entertainment district -
Over the weekend, the Ohio Investigative Unit cited several bars for violating the state's emergency COVID-19 rule banning the sale of alcohol after 10鈥� -
The United States Department of Agriculture is asking Ohioans to send unsolicited seeds they receive in the mail to their offices in Columbus, or to the nearest OSU Extension offices. -
The Ohio Secretary of State Has Ordered The Greene County Board of Elections To Reject Non Citizen Voter Registration In Yellow Springs, Which The Village Approved In A Charter Amendment This April -
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose has ordered the Greene County Board of Elections to reject non-citizen voter registrations in the village of Yellow鈥� -
The Ohio Department of Agriculture is urging citizens not to plant unsolicited seeds they receive in the mail -
A local high school student has received the Governor鈥檚 Thomas Edison Award for Excellence in Alternative Energy Research. -
Last month, an amendment to H.B. 665 in the Ohio House of Representatives would have banned the display and sale of Confederate memorabilia at Ohio... -
Hot weather is coming to the Miami Valley this weekend 鈥� and it will stick around until next early week. The heat index could hit 100 degrees on Sunday... -
COVID-19 cases are on the rise in Greene County. The Ohio Department of Health has been airing a new hyper-local advertisement that features a local...
