
Yasmin Amer
Executive Producer, Agile Production Team
Yasmin Amer is an executive producer of WBUR's agile production team.
Yasmin most recently served as executive producer of WBUR's Radio Boston. Previously, she was a producer and reporter for WBUR’s Kind World podcast.
She joined the local newsroom in late 2016 as a field producer for WBUR's Morning Edition. Before that, she spent almost six years at the CNN headquarters in Atlanta working as a writer, producer, and news editor.
Besides telling a good story, Yasmin is interested in emerging technology and the role it plays in media. She earned her master’s degree in human computer interaction from the Georgia Institute of Technology but she’s first and foremost, a proud North Carolina Tar Heel.
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Ways to use artificial intelligence, right now, in your everyday life
Evan Horowitz, director of the Center for State Policy Analysis at Tufts University, spoke to WBUR's Radio Boston about ways to incorporate AI into our lives.