We started the year with a strong roster of profile episodes, each featuring an outstanding guest with a story that’s made a local impact.

But six of them stood out to us, and we want to give listeners a recap. In today's episode we feature an Olympic Gold Medalist, a public school teacher who performs drag, one of the few Black artists to ever crack the Billboard country charts and more. So you can see why we had to make a profile playlist to recap the last couple of months. We cast a wide net when we search for profile candidates. And we had quite the catch.

This episode was produced by Josh Deepan and Blake Farmer.