Connor Henricksen

Connor has been with NWPB since 2015 in a variety of roles. He now hosts Morning Edition.

He’s been a public broadcasting listener for as long as he can remember, growing up in the Tacoma area and traveling frequently to a family property near Twisp, Washington.

“Every car ride, we listened to public radio until we hit Snoqualmie Pass. When the signal broke up in the Pass, then and only then, is when my parents would pop in the mixtapes.”

Connor’s held some interesting jobs. With the U.S. Geological Survey, he saw the area behind Elwha Dam right after it was removed. And for two summers he was a wildland firefighter Washington and Oregon.

He enjoys music, photography, and getting awestruck by the natural world.

Connor is a self-proclaimed news junkie. If there is one story he wishes he could cover, it would be one on the “Apple-Chucking Hooligan,” the person who threw exactly 3 apples on the roofs of houses in Portland and Vancouver. He says he wants the full story on what he described as “the best thing the Associated Press ever tossed my way.”