Staff
H Conley
Studio Engineer, HRN Educator- Editorial and Journalism (they/them)
H Conley is a former cheesemaker, turned journalist and audio maker. They studied Agriculture and Food Systems at Bard College and fell in love with radio while apprenticing in the Hawthorne Valley Farm creamery. After graduating, they spent four years making cheddar at Beecher's Handmade Cheese. H immersed themself in audio storytelling during the long hours of cheesemaking and decided to pursue radio on the side. They did an internship at HRN in 2019, where they worked on The Farm Report, Meat and Three, and Buenlimon Radio. In 2021, they left cheese production to attend the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY where they received their Master's Degree in Health and Science reporting and Audio Production. H mainly reports on food and climate and trans health and identity. They're the recipient of the 2023 Excellence in Food Reporting Award from The Association of LGTQ+ Journalists. They've had work published in STAT News, The Guardian, Bon Appétit, Edible Manhattan, City Limits, and the Embodied Podcast from WUNC.