Roxy Todd
New River Valley Bureau ChiefRoxy Todd is Radio IQ's New River Valley Bureau Chief. She previously worked for West Virginia Public Broadcasting, where she was a reporter and producer for Inside Appalachia, WVPB’s weekly podcast and radio show heard on stations across central Appalachia. She won a National Edward R. Murrow Award for a story on the demands faced by small farmers in Appalachia. She also won a National PMJA Award for her story about the history of John Denver's song "Country Roads." Roxy's stories, ranging in topics from food deserts to foster care, have aired on NPR and Marketplace. Before working for WVPB, Roxy worked for Allegheny Mountain Radio in West Virginia as an AmeriCorps VISTA, where she created a multi-media project and radio series called “Traveling 219,” about history, culture and foodways along US Route 219. That project won a national award from the Association for State and Local History.
Roxy lives in Pulaski, Virginia with her husband, daughter, dog and cat.
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23-year-old Grace Pfleger is an aspiring opera singer in the New River Valley who’s also studying to become a music therapist. -
New research is finding that the ability to think of events in the future may hold a key to helping people who struggle with alcohol and drug addiction.
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The invasive spotted lanternfly continues to spread throughout Virginia — threatening vineyards. And researchers are training dogs to help sniff them out.
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The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled on a case involving six Virginia landowners and developers of the Mountain Valley Pipeline. This case challenges whether the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has the right to give eminent domain authority to a for-profit entity.
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Some people who get Lyme disease have symptoms long after they’ve received treatment, and scientists are trying to find out why. Their research could also lead doctors to be able to test for Lyme disease more quickly.
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At least 200,000 families across the Commonwealth are in need of affordable housing. Building new apartment buildings and town homes is one way to help. There are also projects to revitalize existing homes, including one in Floyd County.
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The Green Bank observatory in West Virginia recently helped capture a new image of a supermassive black hole which reveals new information about a mystery surrounding black holes.
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If you drive through the small town of Pulaski in the New River Valley in the next month, you may spot a giant sculpture, with hundreds of ladders intertwined. This temporary art installation is made entirely of borrowed ladders.
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Many public school divisions throughout Virginia have orchestra programs, but not in rural southwest Virginia. There is, however, a program in the New River Valley, where music students at Virginia Tech help teach children to play classical string music.
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Students at Emory & Henry College have spent the past semester uncovering the names of hundreds of people who were enslaved at the college, before and during the Civil War. They produced a short video, meant as a memorial to those whose stories would otherwise have been written into oblivion.
