Andi McDaniel, interactive strategy and development manager for Twin Cities Public Television, heads up TPT's Open Air Initiative, a series of digital content and events focused on making public media as playful, interactive, and collaborative as it is smart. Prior to her current role, McDaniel worked as a multimedia producer for TPT’s Interactive Media team. A graduate of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, she’s been toying with different aspects of storytelling for years now—as a public radio reporter in Alaska, as a TV news reporter for CBS in San Francisco, and in her freelance writing life, where she published articles in New York Times Magazine, Mother Jones, Orion, and the Washington Post.