Seven Things I've Learned: An Evening with Ira Glass

Ira Glass is one of our generation’s foremost storytellers. Join the producer and host of NPR’s This American Life as he focuses on the major takeaways learned from his radio career and experiences in life.

Using audio clips, music, and video, Ira Glass delivers a unique talk; sharing lessons from his life and career in storytelling: What inspires him to create? What drives his passion? How have failures and successes informed his decisions? During his presentation, Ira Glass will mix stories live onstage and help his audience better follow the creative process of one of our foremost storytellers.

Glass began his career as an intern at National Public Radio’s network headquarters in Washington, DC in 1978, when he was nineteen years old. He first put This American Life on the air in 1995. The show is heard each week by over 5 million listeners. He also served as an editor for the groundbreaking podcasts Serial, S-Town, and Nice White Parents.

Under Glass’s editorial direction, This American Life has won the highest honors for broadcasting and journalistic excellence, including seven Peabody awards and the first Pulitzer Prize ever awarded for audio journalism. In 2021, This American Life episode ‘The Giant Pool of Money’ was inducted into the Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry, the first podcast ever so honored.

Event Sponsors: Thornburg Investment Management, with additional support from KUNM