Eileen Ganter

About Eileen

Eileen began her Interlochen association a while back, serving at Interlochen Public Radio from 1984 to 1997. There she was Operations Manager, editor of The Guide, host of Music from Interlochen, and the noon news announcer known as the "Cloud Lady" because she ended each newscast with a local cloud report.

Eileen has been on Cloud Nine since rejoining the Interlochen family in 2016 as an Audio Archives Assistant, digitizing open-reel audio tapes of Interlochen Arts Camp performances dating back to the 1950s. When that project was completed, Eileen transferred to the Photo Archives, where she has the joy of preserving and sharing treasured memories of Interlochen magic, which time cannot tarnish nor distance diminish.

Eileen earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Detroit, where she produced its legendary quiz show Ask the Professor, created videos for the university and stewarded the darkroom at the Smith Media Center. For the past couple of decades, Eileen has been a writer, director and narrator. Her favorite example of this is With These Hands: Lives that Shape the Land, a Telly-winning multi-media documentary package telling the stories of local farming families and their profound impact on their communities.

Eileen is co-founder of Circle of Blue, an independent news organization informing decisions on water and its intersection with food, energy, health and the environment. She hosts its weekly podcast, What's Up With Water.

Eileen has years of first-hand experience with archival audio recording as well as film processing and printing methods both old and new. She enjoys the privilege of being rather archival herself, and looks forward to time spent reading, being in nature, learning about interesting things, finding lost things, and making people smile. She is blessed with a husband, a daughter, and a dog, all of whom love Interlochen.