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Amy Lynne Eddings Hilan, class of 1981, is a broadcaster with public radio station, WNYC 93.9 FM and 820 AM. As America’s most-listened-to public radio stations, it reaches more than one million listeners every week. She is now the station’s local host for the national program, NPR’s “All Things Considered.” She holds a bachelor’s degree from The Ohio State University and a master’s degree from New York University.

Eddings volunteered at WBAI, New York’s legendary community radio station and then worked as the news director and morning news host at WFUV-NY for almost four years before joining WNYC in 1998.

She is a frequent contributor to National Public Radio, receiving numerous awards including a 2002 New York Press Club feature award for her story on a church in the Rockaways, which held 15 funerals and a memorial service in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks and the crash of American Airlines Flight 587.

Her work and the family series, “The Juggling act,” won a bronze medal at the 1998 International Radio Festival She won accolades for her collaboration with WNYC reporter Andrea Bernstein on “Handshake Hotels” an investigative report citing the costs and processes involved in temporarily placement for New York’s homeless.