Anika Besst

Anika is a temporary associate producer/reporter working MPR News. She has been a part of the Voter Helpdesk team creating the most comprehensive candidate guides MPR has ever made. She most recently supported Call to Mind and APM Reports. She studied theatre arts and journalism with an emphasis of social justice at Hamline University in St. Paul, where she was the Editor in Chief of the student newspaper, The Oracle, and performed in the theatre and dance department. During her time at Hamline, she covered the COVID-19 pandemic, administrative and budget turbulence and policy changes. She also covered preservation and indigenous people with the Christian Science Monitor during study abroad in Thailand. Anika grew up in the northwest suburbs of the Twin Cities.