Jana Rose Schleis

Jana Rose Schleis is a contributing reporter at the Desk, a news producer at KBIA and an instructor at the Missouri School of Journalism. Schleis is the reporter and producer behind KBIA’s national award-winning series, The Next Harvest, which explores solutions to agriculture’s environmental and economic challenges through on-the-ground reporting and contextual storytelling. She earned a master’s degree at the Missouri School of Journalism where she studied investigative journalism and government reporting, and her bachelor’s degree at the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point, where her very first radio experience came from the community station WWSP 90FM — Your Only Alternative.