Olivia Weitz is an award-winning radio producer. She is currently working as a multimedia journalist for Wyoming Public Radio. She is based in Cody, WY, at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, a Smithsonian affiliate focusing on the history of Yellowstone National Park and the heritage and cultures of the West. 

Previously, Olivia was the Bozeman Reporter for Yellowstone Public Radio, an NPR member station in Montana.

Olivia’s stories have appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Weekend Edition Saturday, and Here & Now. She launched the Expressive Idaho series for Boise State Public Radio, which has won a PRNDI and Edward R. Murrow awards. With nearly a decade of journalism experience, she has reported in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana for Yellowstone Public Radio and the Northwest News Network.

Olivia specializes in producing non-narrated features, audio postcards, and full-length podcast episodes focusing on folklore, art, and culture. From Basque-sausage making in Boise, Idaho, to folk music inspired by Yellowstone National Park, and cowboy artists making sterling silver jewelry, Olivia mixes traditional radio journalism and modern story-telling techniques to let people tell their stories in their own words. 

Olivia graduated from the University of Puget Sound, where she studied Writing, Rhetoric & Culture as well as Economics. She was accepted into the Transom radio workshop, a 9-week residential radio storytelling training program, in Woods Hole, MA on Cape Cod.