Editor for Pushkin Industries (2021-2022) on the weekly series Getting Even. Author, lawyer, and feminist icon Anita Hill tackles the tough questions about equality and what it takes to get there. Launched in March 2022 with Reimagining 1991: An Unheard Testimony.
Executive Producer of BRIC Radio (2016). Helped to create BRIC Radio, a Brooklyn-based podcasting network that amplifies voices and stories that reflect the diversity and creative spirit of the borough's communities. Launched in October 2016 with a slate of 5 shows which included Talkin’ 4 Curry; Brooklyn, USA; and Last Name Basis. Worked with the team to pilot and develop the podcasts.
Founding Senior Producer (2003 - 2007). Created award-winning public media content, developing StoryCorps’ signature sound and style. With my team, we produced and edited the first hundred weekly broadcasts for NPR’s Morning Edition, culled from tens of thousands of interviews; launched the StoryCorps podcast; created the New York Times bestselling book Listening is an Act of Love; and an interactive website.
Below IS a SAMPLE OF THE FIRST 100+ BROADCASTS WHICH I SENIOR PRODUCED:
(Producer) Danny Perasa was a clerk for Off Track Betting in New York. His wife, Annie, was a nurse. To this day, their love story is one of StoryCorps’ most well-known pieces. This piece also ran on P.OV. as an animated short.
In 1985, at a time when AIDS was still entering America's consciousness, 40-year-old Tom Ward died of the disease. His sister tells the story of how the AIDS affected this one family.
An interview between a mother and her 12-year-old son who has Asperger’s Syndrome. The broadcast was turned into an animated short.
An early piece from the September 11th Initiative; one of these stories became an animated short and the September 11th Initiative was recognized with a Peabody award.
A retired Memphis, Tennessee sanitation worker and his wife were at the Mason Temple on April 3, 1968 when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous speech “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop.” They recall hearing Dr. King speak and then learning about his death the next day.
(Producer) Journalist Adrian Nicole LeBlanc faces mortality and loss in recordings she made during the last months of her father's life. The Ground We Lived On is a 13-minute radio documentary on loving and losing a parent and the record of a father’s final gift to his daughter: helping her to conceive of a world without him.
Recipient of the Third Coast Audio Festival's Listener Impact Award.