Stephanie Elkins has been the host and producer of "Simply Folk" since 2011, and is also a classical music announcer and programmer heard on a variety of WPR programs. Elkins is the former co-host of "The Midday" with Norman Gilliland and has been a music host on Wisconsin Public Radio since 2007.
In addition to her on-air duties, Elkins served as WPR's interim marketing director in 2009 and 2010. Before joining WPR, she hosted "Musica Antiqua" for 10 years at WORT-FM in Madison, and she started in public radio at WDIY-FM in Allentown/Bethlehem, PA. Elkins earned a BA in both political science and French with areas-of-interest in music and Italian from the University of Rhode Island. She did two years of graduate work in applied economics at the University of Central Florida and studied at the Sorbonne in France for a year.
