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Pauline Bartolone

Pauline Bartolone

KQED Contributor

Pauline Bartolone has been a journalist for two decades, specializing in longform audio storytelling. Before editing and producing for podcasts like Bay Curious, she was a health care journalist for public radio and print outlets such as CalMatters and Kaiser Health News. Her reporting has won several regional Edward R. Murrow awards, national recognition from the Society of Professional Journalists and a first-place prize from the Association of Health Care Journalists. Pauline’s work has aired frequently on National Public Radio, and bylines have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, CNN.com, Washingtonpost.com, USA Today and Scientific American. Pauline has lived in Northern California for 20 years. Her other passions are crafts (now done in collaboration with her daughter) and the Brazilian martial art of capoeira.

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Image of a female robot, AI-Da, standing behind a black table scattered with art supplies: white paper with a half-finished painting of flowers, sitting on top of a clear acrylic stand; ten pots of paint, also on top of a clear acrylic stand; a stack of three books; a finished portrait of a face inside a clear protective sleeve; a stack of pamphlets, the top one reading, “AI-Da Robot.” AI-Da has a blank expression with her mouth slightly ajar, black, chin-length hair, and visible robotic parts that make up her arms. She’s wearing a teal sleeveless shirt and dark grey denim overalls. Her elbow rests on the stack of books as she dips a paintbrush into a pot of blue paint in front of her. Behind AI-Da is a clothesline, with four of her artworks hanging on it, inside clear protective sleeves. The artwork is glitchy-looking — to the left of the image is what seems to be a self-portrait and towards the center is a tree. All of this is inside of a wooden shed-like structure. AI-Da and the shed are tinted blue.

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