Sierra Pfeifer
Mental Health and Addiction ReporterSierra Pfeifer is a reporter covering mental health and addiction at KOSU. She joined KOSU in July 2024 as a corps member with Report for America, a GroundTruth initiative that places emerging journalists in newsrooms across the country.
Pfeifer is a native of Hillsborough, North Carolina and recently graduated from UNC Chapel Hill, where she studied journalism and Spanish. At UNC, Pfeifer was the audio editor for the student newspaper The Daily Tar Heel. She also served as the producer for Carolina Connection, a student-run radio show covering higher education, and worked as a reporter for local radio station 97.9 The Hill.
This year, Pfeifer participated in NPR’s Next Generation Radio fellowship, where she produced a non-narrated audio story covering modern ties to “home” in the American South. She also won first place in the 2024 National Hearst Audio Competition for her news coverage.
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A new effort to strengthen behavioral health services in rural Oklahoma is underway, thanks to a $2.3 million grant awarded to Northeastern State University’s School of Social Work. -
The Oklahoma City Museum of Art is welcoming its tiniest visitors for a special Saturday morning program designed just for infants and their parents. -
More than a decade of faulty budgeting practices and mismanagement at the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health contributed to the agency’s recent financial crisis, according to an investigative report. -
A program promising much-needed mental health professionals for rural Oklahoma schools is on the chopping block of funding cuts from the Trump Administration. -
Facing increasing pressure to dissolve, the Oklahoma County Criminal Justice Authority voted unanimously on Friday to launch a formal review of its performance. -
A surge in cocaine use, a rise in methamphetamine deaths and a worsening fentanyl epidemic were all among the top concerns identified. -
Reporters fanned out across the Oklahoma City Thunder championship parade. Here's what they saw. -
The City of Tulsa is planning some changes to curb youth gun violence, including a downtown curfew for minors. -
An Oklahoma lawmaker is asking for a legal opinion about whether drag shows are banned by an obscenity law recently adopted by the legislature. -
Federal appellate judges are reconsidering what will happen next for Brenda Andrew, the only woman on Oklahoma’s death row.
