Mike Kiniry
Mike Kiniry is producer of Gulf Coast Live, and co-creator and host of the WGCU podcast Three Song Stories: Biography Through Music. He first joined the WGCU team in the summer of 2003 as an intern while studying Communication at Florida Gulf Coast University.
He became the first producer of Gulf Coast Live when the show launched in 2004, and also worked as the host of All Things Considered from 2004 to 2006, and the host of Morning Edition from 2006 to 2011. He then left public radio to work as PR Director for the Alliance for the Arts for five years, and was then Principled Communicator at the election integrity company Free & Fair for a year before returning to WGCU in October, 2017.
In the past Mike has been a bartender and cook at Liquid Café in downtown Fort Myers, a golf club fixer/seller at the Broken Niblick Golf Shop in Fort Myers, and a bookseller at Ives Book Shop in Fort Myers. He lives near downtown Fort Myers with his daughter, and their dog and two cats.
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On this episode of “Gulf Coast Life,” we touch base with the State Emergency Mental Task Force’s clinical director to get a sense of the work in the early days of recovery from Idalia. -
The increasing rate of ASD diagnoses has driven a growing demand for education, therapy and other services for neurodivergent kids, their families and their support networks.
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The renowned autism activist is the guest on WGCU's Gulf Coast Life in advance of her talk on Saturday in Fort Myers.
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In this interview with author Rebecca Totora, we explore ways our response to the pandemic might have similarities to other plagues, and how writers like William Shakespeare responded.
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Cornell researchers have provided the first documentation that dogs’ sense of smell is integrated with their vision and other unique parts of the brain.
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While screening techniques for ASD have improved, diagnosis and cause are still far from straightforward. On WGCU's Gulf Coast Life, a discussion about the early detection.
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Jerri Edwards, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences at the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine, talks about the study.
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A study led by Florida Gulf Coast University, Releaf App and CannaMD hopes to further clarify just what ratios of cannabinoids best reduce anxiety symptoms.
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FGCU professor Mike Parsons discusses the study, which seeks volunteers who live near the water to provide blood, urine and nasal samples for baseline data.
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On Gulf Coast Life, we talk about the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System with Dr. Tom Shimabukuro, captain of the U.S. Public Health Service and deputy director of the CDC Immunization Safety Office.
