This November, Arkansas elected its first Latina state representative. Diana Gonzales Worthen will represent District 9, which is also Arkansas’ first majority Latino district. Representative-Elect Gonzales Worthen joined Ozarks at Large's Matthew Moore in the Bruce and Ann Applegate New Studio 2 last week to discuss her journey into politics and what motivated her to become engaged locally.

The Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce and Associated Industries of Arkansas are joining forces again this year to host Arkansas’s portion of the 2025 National Civics Bee. Trish Villines coordinates the competition for the State Chamber and says it’s expanded from last year. Ozarks at Large’s Jack Travis reached out to Villines to learn more about the Bee and what students can expect.

Gaby Nagel is an Eastern Band Cherokee flute player, actor and model raised in Fayetteville. She recently brought part of her collection of flutes to KUAF’s Firmin Garner Performance Studio.

Becca Martin-Brown returns to discuss modern events with a deeper history with Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams. This week, the two reach out to Dalton Fischer with Silver Dollar City to learn more about the origins of holiday traditions at the famed Ozark theme park.

On today's show, Arkansas’ first Latina state representative. Also, Gabby Nagle performs world-premiere music in our Firmin-Garner Studio. Plus, an exercise in spreading civics knowledge in Arkansas expands for 2024.

Artist Jay Youngdahl's latest exhibit "What Did You Learn in School Today?" explores how school history lessons and textbooks shape our worldview, especially around race.

Burt Bacharach's music can be a warm blanket, and it inspired the national tour of Mark Morris Dance Group’s “The Look of Love.” Original choreography will accompany more than a dozen Bacharach songs on stage at Walton Arts Center on Wednesday, November 20. Marcy Harriell will sing those songs, and she visited the Anthony and Susan Hui News Studio to talk about singing for performance.

Last week, the third annual Excel by Eight Foundation’s Collaborative Summit took place in Little Rock. The event brought together business leaders, chambers of commerce and heads of nonprofits. It wasn’t designed to find instant solutions to a wide-ranging problem but to expedite conversations among groups to work toward solutions. The meeting wasn’t open to the press. Still, afterward, Steve Cousins, the board chair of El Dorado-based SHARE Foundation, and Brandom Gengelbach, the president and CEO of the Greater Bentonville Area Chamber of Commerce, spoke with Ozarks at Large.

Deer hunting season is in full swing in Arkansas, and that should mean something to anyone spending time outside this fall and winter. Trey Reid is a spokesperson for the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission and spoke with Ozarks at Large’s Jack Travis ahead of modern gun season, which began Saturday, Nov. 9. Reid says that everyone, hunters or otherwise, should focus on safety while recreating outdoors.

Daizhan Ennals, CEO and founder of Renewed Robotics, is revolutionizing the housing industry with autonomous technology. In this excerpt of "I Am Northwest Arkansas," he speaks with host Randy Wilburn about his groundbreaking project, the Sam: Self Assembling Municipality, designed to autonomously provide shelter and utilities in diverse environments, from disaster zones to space exploration.