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Kim Weir, the host of NSPR's California travel program "Up the Road." Is photographed on campus on Tuesday, January 14, 2020 in Chico, Calif. (Jessica Bartlett/University Photographer/CSU Chico)

Kim Weir

Host, Up The Road

Kim Weir is the founder of Up the Road, a nonprofit public-interest journalism project. She researches, writes, and hosts Up the Road, a radio show and mini-podcast about California co-produced by North State Public Radio. Kim got her start as a travel journalist in 1990 with the publication of the first and original Moon Handbooks Northern California, a surprise best-seller. Six other Moon books on California soon followed. She is a member, by invitation, of the venerable Society of American Travel Writers (SATW). Kim earned a BA in environmental studies and analysis, with an emphasis on botany and ecology, and also holds an MFA in creative writing. She lives in Paradise.