Celeste Headlee
Celeste Headlee was born in Whittier, California, United States on December 30th, 1969 and is the Radio Host. At the age of 54, Celeste Headlee biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Headlee began her career as a journalist as an anchor and writer with Arizona Public Radio station KNAU in Flagstaff in 1999 and as an on-air personality with Flagstaff station KVNA. In 2001, she became a reporter and anchor for WDET-FM, Detroit Public Radio, hosting a weekly one-hour program called Front Row Center. In 2006 she began working for National Public Radio, developing stories, covering breaking news, and producing long-form features. Headlee was the Midwest Correspondent for NPR's Day to Day and her news reports have aired on NPR, Public Radio International, the Pacifica Network, the Great Lakes Radio Consortium, and National Native News.
From 2009 to August 2012, Headlee was the host (along with John Hockenberry) of The Takeaway, a live national morning news program produced by Public Radio International and WNYC New York. In December 2017, it was revealed that she was one of many female former Takeaway cohosts who had left the program as a result of having allegedly been subjected to bullying and disrespect by Hockenberry. Other women associated with the program also came forward with similar accounts, as well as allegations of sexual harassment.
In late 2012, she started acting as an occasional guest host on NPR's Tell Me More, and a guest host in the absence of the late Neal Conan on Talk of the Nation. Both shows are no longer on the air.
In 2014, she launched On Second Thought on Georgia Public Broadcasting. The hour-long public radio show focuses on local and national news as it relates to Georgia and the South.
Headlee is currently the cohost of Retro Report on PBS.
In 2021, Headlee began substitute co-hosting on NPR and WBUR's Here and Now.
Musical education and career
A classically trained soprano, Headlee graduated from the Idyllwild Arts Academy (part of the Idyllwild Arts Foundation) in 1987 and received a B.A. in Vocal Performance at Northern Arizona University in 1993, graduating with honors. Headlee received her Master of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Michigan in 1998, studying with Freda Herseth, Leslie Guinn, and George Shirley, and has studied song interpretation with Martin Katz. Headlee has performed at the National Gallery of Art, Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, the Distinguished Artist Series at the Church of the Red Rocks, Colorado College, the Detroit Institute of Arts, Yavapai College, Wagner College and Wayne State University, among other venues. She also performed with such companies as the Michigan Opera Theater, the Sedona Repertory Company, the Harlequin Players (in Olympia, Washington), the Sedona Arts Center, and the Great Lakes Lyric Opera.