# Small Town Girl

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Immigration, Identity & Arkansas Politics with Dr. Alejandra Campos

From Springdale to the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, IN and back to Arkansas, Dr. Alejandra Campos shares her family’s powerful immigration story and how it shaped her work as a political science professor at the University of Arkansas. In this episode of Small Town Girl, we talk about im…

Classic Radio 06-30-26 - Blood Bath, Small Town Girl, and Death Watch

Crime on a TuesdayFirst, a look at the events of the day.Then, Escape, originally broadcast  June 30, 1950, 76 years ago, Blood Bath starring Vincent Price.  A thriller about a man trapped on a small sandbar in the middle of a jungle river with piranha fish, vampire bats, electric eels, a boa const…

The Ozarker: Using Social Media to Revitalize Rural Arkansas

In this episode of Small Town Girl, Gwen Faulkenberry sits down with Porter Hays, creator of The Ozarker and co-host of the Hawg Talk podcast, to discuss the power of small-town pride, community storytelling, and revitalizing rural Arkansas. Porter shares how growing up in Ozark shaped his passion …

Jayne Anne Phillips: Small Town Girls

This week on You Are What You Read, we are joined by Jayne Anne Phillips to talk about her new memoir, Small Town Girls. Jayne is the author of Black Tickets, Machine Dreams, Fast Lanes, Shelter, MotherKind, Lark and Termite, Quiet Dell, and Night Watch, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2024…

Be a Menace to Your Government: Kristin Foster on Arkansas Politics

In this episode of Small Town Girl, host Gwen Faulkenberry sits down with Kristin Foster, executive director of the League of Women Voters of Arkansas and a longtime advocate for civic engagement and public policy. Kristin breaks down what’s happening with Arkansas’ budget following the state’s lat…

The Power of People: Your Vote Is Just the Beginning

In this episode of Small Town Girl, Gwen Faulkenberry sits down with Dr. Gail Choate, executive director of the Arkansas Civic Action Network, to talk about what it really means to be an engaged citizen. Dr. Choate discusses why so many people feel overwhelmed or disconnected from the political pro…

You're Not Broken... You're Having a HUMAN MOMENT

In this deeply personal episode of Small Town Girl, Gwen Faulkenberry sits down with Dr. Rose Smith, the therapist she credits with helping change her life. Gwen opens up about the difficult period following her 2020 election loss, the physical toll of chronic stress, and the moment she began to un…

"I Finally LOVE Who I Am": Coming Out Later in Life

In this episode of Small Town Girl, Gwen sits down with Dr. Jim Mark Ingram, an allergy physician who spent much of his life hiding a fundamental part of who he was. Growing up in a small, conservative Arkansas town and a Southern Baptist family, Jim knew from a young age that he was gay, but he di…