Long Haul Productions is based in Three Oaks, Michigan, just across the lake from Chicago.

In the office, you'll find:

Long Haul Spiritual Aide,
Mr. Red Belly

Long Haul staff assistants – including our beloved girl, Bronte the lab mix – with Elizabeth

Proud: carrot harvest

Typical Long Haul lunch break at
Red Belly Acres

Executive Director/Producer Dan Collison
Collison started work in public radio as a volunteer back in 1980. He founded Long Haul Productions in 1992, after four years as senior producer and editor of National Public Radio's All Things Considered (Weekend). Since, he's been a regular contributor to All Things Considered, has traveled around the country producing documentaries, and has been honored with many awards, including the prestigious duPont-Columbia Award for his story Scenes from a Transplant. The film version of that story, produced by Collison and Tom Jennings, aired on HBO. He's produced stories for television's Nightline, taught radio workshops and conducted oral history interviews for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He's also a contributor to the book Local Heroes: Changing America, a project which matched prominent producers and photographers in an effort to document the work of grass roots community organizations in America.


Producer Elizabeth Meister
Meister quit her job at the phone company to volunteer for public radio show This American Life in 1998, when she started their award-winning website in exchange for a chance to learn how to make radio documentaries. Since then, her income has shrunk, but she's managed to produce and/or report stories for NPR's All Things Considered and Morning Edition, and This American Life. She's a roadtripping photographer, muddy gardener, a seeker of good music (send your suggestions), and a very proud board member of the Enchanted Highway Foundation.