Sam Bermas-Dawes
Producer, MiddaySam Bermas-Dawes is a producer for Midday. He previously produced for WYPR's On The Record.
He began working in public radio in Georgia, before working on The Middle with Jeremy Hobson through the 2022 midterm election. Sam grew up in Montclair, NJ and went to school in Washington, D.C.
When he is not working, Sam is likely to be on a soccer field or reading in his hammock.
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The new book from Elaine Weiss, Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools that Built the Civil Rights Movement, explores the history of educators working to advance the rights of Black Americans. -
Midday hears from Baltimore City Schools CEO Dr. Sonja Santelises. Her contract ends in the Summer of 2026. -
Growing energy demand meets Maryland's carbon-free energy goals. So where will the state get its energy in the future. -
Martin O'Malley is former governor of Maryland and headed the Social Security Administration at the end of the Biden admninistration. -
Midday reflects on the tenth anniversary of the Freddie Gray uprising. How have police reform and community investment improved since the uprising that encouraged Baltimore's evolution? -
Midday Theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck joins Tom in the studio to review the latest theatre productions from the region. -
This weekend the Baltimore Choral Arts Society will have singers from far and wide join them in a community sing along of Beethoven's ninth symphony. -
The Lyric's eighth Dream Big contests asks Baltimore area students from 5th to 12th grade to share the changes that will make the world a better place. -
The best-selling author Amor Towles talks about his book of six short stories and the novella, 'Eve in Hollywood,' collected under the title, 'Table for Two.' -
Anne Frank died as a teenager in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945. But she lived a second life as a historical figure following the widespread publication of her diary.
