Jana Rose Schleis is a News Producer at KBIA. She earned a M.A. at the University of Missouri School of Journalism where she studied investigative journalism and government reporting. Jana Rose worked for Agri-Pulse in Washington D.C. and the Cap Times in Madison, WI where she honed expertise reporting on energy, environment, agriculture and policy.

Previously, Jana Rose worked at Wisconsin Public Radio for five years as a Production Assistant, Producer of “The Morning Show,” and finally Network Producer for The Ideas Network. She earned her bachelor’s degree at the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point.

During graduate school she reported on city, county, and state government and was the Morning Anchor at KBIA. Jana Rose was also a member of the Watchdog Writers Group and a Pulitzer Center grantee.

Jana Rose Schleis is from a small Wisconsin town located on the Lake Michigan shore. She loves cheese, of course, and also live music, books and radio.