Elana Gordon is a reporter at KCUR in Kansas City, Missouri, where she covers the health beat. She also freelances for the city’s oldest bilingual newspaper, Dos Mundos. Gordon was previously a production assistant for KCUR’s live daily news show, Up to Date. Before taking the plunge into radio, she worked as a prevention specialist at a health clinic.

Gordon has a dual degree in political science and music from Barnard College. It was there that she first caught the radio bug as an occasional host/producer for the music program, In All Languages, on WKCR 89.9 FM.