# Steve Ahlquist
Top podcast episodes
Updated:
steve ahlquist (born 1963) is an American journalist, comic book writer, graphic novelist, and humanist from Rhode Island.
Ahlquist is the founder and editor-in-chief of Uprise RI, a Rhode Island based news site covering issues of social justice, human rights, progressive politics and climate change. He is also the President and founding member of Humanists of Rhode Island.He is known for his reporting on Uprise RI, which has been credited with informing and sustaining the movement against a proposed fracked-gas power plant in Burrillville, Rhode Island.
Breaking Down RI's New Budget with UpriseRI's Steve Ahlquist
Send us Fan Mail
Bill Bartholomew is joined by UpriseRI reporter Steve Ahlquist to assess RI's new state budget.
Support the show
Follow Bill on Instagram and YouTube
Special Report: RI's Housing Crisis Part 4 - Journalist Steve Ahlquist
Send us Fan Mail
Special Report: RI's Housing Crisis part 4. Bill Bartholomew welcomes journalist Steve Ahlquist of UpriseRI for an emotional discussion on the reporting he has done on RI's housing crisis.
Support the show
Follow Bill on Instagram and YouTube
An Update on Smithfield Schools Trans/Gender Nonconforming Policy Discussion with Steve Ahlquist
Send us Fan Mail
Reporter Steve Ahlquist joins the show to offer an update on a controversial proposal in Smithfield Schools that would require teachers to "out" trans students to their parents.
Support the show
Follow Bill on Instagram and YouTube
Episode 13: STEAM Box vs Young Voices with Steve Ahlquist: Documenting Justice
In this episode, @STEAMBoxRI sits down with local justice advocate and journalist Steve Ahlquist (SteveAhlquist.substack.com). Steve shares why documenting local events and amplifying the voices of marginalized communities is crucial for creating a just society. The conversation also takes a fun tu…
Steve Ahlquist
Send us Fan Mail
Bill Bartholomew welcomes journalist Steve Ahlquist back to the podcast for a discussion on his work, including his transition to Substack, the Rhode Island crisis of the unhoused and much more.
Support the show
Follow Bill on Instagram and YouTube
Freedom to Read Rhode Island
I recently spoke at a press conference in the Rhode Island statehouse to lend my voice in support of the Authors Against Book Bans Rhode Island chapter and the new legislation for the Freedom to Read in Rhode Island.
“The Freedom to Read Act (2025-H 5726, 2025-S 0238) seeks to protect libraries fro…
Back to School, Back to Truth: Conversations on Race, Adoption & Journalism with Ahna Fleming and Libby Hobbs
This August, as we embrace the "Back to School" season of Continued Learning & Growth, I welcome two incredible young journalists, Ahna Fleeming and Libby Hobbs, for a conversation rooted in truth-telling, identity, and resilience.
After a painful racial slur was used toward me during a public pro…
[Steve Ahlquist, practical matters]: Embracing the risks and rewards of working for yourself Ep 1281
![[Steve Ahlquist, practical matters]: Embracing the risks and rewards of working for yourself Ep 1281](https://cdn-images-3.listennotes.com/podcasts/finding-the-throughline-with-kate-hanley-iJyEfgn5RcA-5cJtLHxYo81.256x256.jpg)
My guest this week is Steve Ahlquist, an independent reporter who practices what’s known as advocacy journalism. Steve has been covering politics and protest in the state of Rhode Island for well over a decade, first at the now-defunct blog RI Future, then at the news website he founded, UpriseRI, …
[Steve Ahlquist, inner stuff]: When your work elicits death threats Ep 1282
In part two of my interview with Steve Ahlquist, an advocacy journalist in Rhode Island and publisher of Steve Ahlquist News, we get into the ideas and thought processes that inform his reporting, including:- An honest look at the physical risks of covering politics (including, but not limited to d…
[Steve Ahlquist, what’s coming up]: When your popularity rises and falls depending on who’s president Ep 1283
Welcome to the final installment of my interview with Steve Ahlquist, an independent journalist who covers social justice, economic justice, and environmental justice in the state of Rhode Island. Steve is the founder of the independent news site Uprise RI, and currently is sharing his reporting at…
PODCAST SEARCH ENGINE
You can use our website to search 3,825,960 podcasts and 195,970,560 episodes by people, places, or topics.
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious, and
I listen to podcasts.
‐ Albert "Llamacorn" Einstein
EDIT
Thank you for helping to keep the podcast database up to date.
