Tamara Saviano is a Wisconsin native whose life unfolds at the intersection of film, music, and storytelling. She moves through American roots with a photographer’s eye for detail and a storyteller’s instinct for truth, weaving place, people, and song into intimate portraits of a living culture.

Today, Saviano’s energy travels with her as she guides cultural tours through Wisconsin with The Traveling Kind and shares her voice on the airwaves as host of The Traveling Kind, an Americana radio show on WVMO—the Voice of Monona. In 2026, she is traversing the state once more, following in the footsteps of Robert Gard’s 1969 book This is Wisconsin to update stories for a new book and a YouTube series.