
Avi Wolfman-Arent
Avi Wolfman-Arent is a host on 90.9 FM and an education reporter with WHYY News, where he's worked since 2014. Prior to that he covered nonprofits for the Chronicle of Philanthropy and education technology for the Chronicle of Higher Education. Avi first took a shine to radio at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. He earned his undergraduate degree at Haverford College and grew up in the D.C. area. Despite the latter he’s a lifelong Philadelphia sports fan, devoting an unhealthy portion of his conscious thought to the Sixers, Phillies, and Eagles. He lives in South Philadelphia.
Recent Articles
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1990s battle over Mt. Airy AIDS hospice center shows the power of grassroots opposition — and the limits of NIMBYism

A hateful crime, a false confession, a federal investigation: The 1975 Feltonville firebombing

40 years ago, a legendary Philly columnist helped defuse a prison hostage situation
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How racial profiling drove away Philly’s first heavyweight boxing champion

The Philadelphia ties of the Soviet refusenik once called a ‘modern-day Moses’

The Philadelphia pennant race that brought 200 cops to a baseball game

The ‘war tax’ resistance movement and the Philly athlete who pioneered anthem protests

An abbreviated tale of Smedley D. Butler, the ‘fighting Quaker’ recruited to overthrow President Roosevelt

How the ‘Grande Dame of Broad Street’ led to the discovery of Legionnaires’ disease
