Dustin Dwyer
Reporter/ProducerDustin Dwyer is a reporter on the State of Opportunity project, based in Grand Rapids. Previously, he worked as an online journalist for Changing Gears, as a freelance reporter and as Michigan Radio's West Michigan Reporter. Before he joined Michigan Radio, Dustin interned at NPR's Talk of the Nation, wrote freelance stories for The Jackson Citizen-Patriot and completed a Reporting & Writing Fellowship at the Poynter Institute.
In 2010, Dustin left journalism to be a stay-at-home dad. Now that his daughter Irene is turning two, he's happy to be back at Michigan Radio, where there are far fewer temper-tantrums.
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She first went into the system when she was five years old, she says.She bounced around, like any of the thousands of kids in Michigan who go through… -
Michelle Gach’s son was taken from her home nearly two years ago, when he was three year old. Police took him after he was found alone in a park across… -
Today I got an update on a story we reported here in January. It's the story of Michelle Gach, a mother whose parental rights were terminated by a judge… -
In Lansing every year, there is a day set aside as Child Abuse Prevention Awareness Day. That day was yesterday. So, on the steps of the Capitol, people… -
The tiny white ball arcs against the cold gray sky, almost too hard to see. "That's a good ball," says Devon Kitchen, eyes focused as the ball drops… -
"Used to be a church right here," Jamiel Robinson says, nodding toward a storefront on South Division in Grand Rapids. "Yeah?" I say, eyeing the business.… -
Grand Rapids is changing.Michigan’s second-largest city is in the middle of a development boom. All around town, new buildings are going up, or old… -
Education is one of the best ways to get ahead in America. So, why do so many young people from poor backgrounds drop out? An economic paper published… -
Nearly every day, a silver Subaru makes its way through the tiny towns and white pine woods of Wexford County, in northern Michigan.Behind the wheel is… -
It was November, and the first snowfall had already arrived, reminding everyone of another long, cold winter yet to come. The passengers boarded the train…
