Randi B. Hagi
News ReporterRandi B. Hagi first joined the WMRA team in 2019 as a freelance reporter. Her writing and photography have been featured in The Harrisonburg Citizen, where she previously served as the assistant editor; as well as The Mennonite; Mennonite World Review; and Eastern Mennonite University's Crossroads magazine.
Randi grew up bouncing around the East Coast with roots in West Virginia. Outside of the media world, she has also worked in restaurants, managed the kitchen at the nonprofit Our Community Place, and raised ducks and sheep. You can contact Randi at hagirb@jmu.edu.
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A community group traveled to Charlottesville on Thursday as part of their efforts to bring public transit back to Rockingham County. WMRA's Randi B. Hagi reports. -
Harrisonburg is home to one of the six resettlement agencies that serve refugees coming to Virginia. WMRA's Randi B. Hagi spoke with two young people who have made their home here, and are now pursuing careers to give back to the community.
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An Augusta County program that provides an alternative to criminal prosecution for nonviolent people with mental health or substance abuse issues recently won a $1 million federal grant. WMRA's Randi B. Hagi reports.
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The battle over LGBTQ books at the Samuels Public Library in Front Royal concluded last month with the library regaining full funding. WMRA's Randi B. Hagi reviewed the would-be book banners' complaints and spoke with one of the targeted authors.
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While the company Nexus has been besieged by local and federal investigations, multi-million dollar lawsuits, and property foreclosures; another strikingly similar business has popped up – Subversivo, LLC. And while Nexus has acknowledged in court that Subversivo is handling their financial transactions because they can't get any banks to work with them, they've dodged questions about whether the two companies are really one and the same. WMRA's Bob Leweke spoke with reporter Randi B. Hagi about this. She’s been following the Nexus saga for more than a year.
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A group of people from various religious backgrounds have created a framework for teaching what they call "soulful practices" to one another in the pursuit of wellbeing and resilience. WMRA's Randi B. Hagi reports.
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The results of most of our local elections are in – and there's a new sheriff in town in Culpeper County. WMRA's Randi B. Hagi reports.
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Now that the polls are closed and most of the ballots counted, civic engagement groups are hosting a discussion in Winchester this Thursday about what comes next. WMRA's Randi B. Hagi reports.
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Firefighters are still working to contain the Madison County wildfire. It expanded further into Shenandoah National Park and the Rapidan Wildlife Management Area over the weekend. WMRA's Randi B. Hagi reports.
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The wildfire in Madison County has now burned more than a thousand acres. WMRA's Randi B. Hagi spoke with a representative from the Virginia Department of Forestry and filed this report.
