Work
Curious and inquisitive by nature, I produce podcasts, audio documentaries, feature stories, and field reporting that is thoughtful, nuanced, and thoroughly researched and edited. Here is a selection of some of my favorite work.
I have worked on a wide variety of podcast projects ranging from weekly pop culture interview shows to serialized narrative and investigative podcasts to educational podcasts for parents.
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My Role: Senior Producer
Monumental is a 10-episode anthology podcast series from PRX that takes a fresh look at the contested and shifting landscape of monuments and memorials across the greater U.S., with an emphasis on first-person storytelling.
As senior producer, I managed and supported a geographically far flung team of independent audio producers in creative documentary storytelling. My role was wide ranging and encompassed building and overseeing systems + production processes as well as being an editorial leader on story edits, episode structure and sound design. I scored and assembled sound-rich assembly mixes in Pro Tools and directed voiceover tracking sessions with our series host, Ashley C. Ford, as well as with episode producers. I also contributed field reporting and produced a sound-rich mini-segment on the evolution of George Floyd Square in Minneapolis.
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My Role: Producer
Sent Away is an award-winning investigative podcast from APM Reports examining abuses in Utah’s ‘troubled teen’ residential treatment industry.
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My Role: Producer
In Deep (Season Two), is a narrative documentary podcast from APM Reports about what happens to people when systems fail after a climate disaster.
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My Role: Senior Producer
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My Role: Producer
I have produced two in-depth historical audio documentaries about 20th century Minneapolis social history.
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A Fiery Unrest: Why Plymouth Avenue Burned
“A Fiery Unrest: Why Plymouth Avenue Burned” is a feature-length audio documentary that revisits the causes and consequences of racial unrest and street violence that brought National Guard troops to North Minneapolis during the turbulent Long Hot Summer of 1967. Similar to the racial justice protests we saw in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder in 2020, the late 1960s were a time when pent-up frustrations about racial discrimination came to a head on city streets across the United States.
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The Godfather of Black Space in Minneapolis
“The Godfather of Black Space in Minneapolis,” is a feature-length audio documentary tracing the life and legacy of Anthony Brutus Cassius, an overlooked Twin Cities labor organizer, civil rights leader and entrepreneur who fought to be the first Black person in Minnesota to get a liquor license and open a bar in downtown Minneapolis in the late 1940s. I co-produced this work, which included a party and community listening event, in collaboration with Twin Cities food writer and professional chef Mecca Bos.
My award-winning audio features about Minnesota people, arts and culture have aired on NPR’s Weekend All Things Considered and Here and Now as well as the BBC, The World and Latino USA among other outlets.
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You Have Dark Skin and You Are Beautiful: The Long Fight Against Skin Bleaching (NPR)
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Poets And Poetry Lovers Alike Lament Loss Of 'The Writer's Almanac' (NPR)
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How Black Lives Matter Got An Anthem (KFAI and BBC Cultural Frontline)
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Dancing Underwater While Trying Not To Drown (KFAI)
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How Chef Yia Vang Is Putting His Own Twist On Hmong Cuisine (The World)
I am a go-to field producer for national and international outlets doing reporting and production in the upper Midwest. This includes tape syncs, documentary audio production, vox pop. research and in-depth interviews with local sources.
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Tape Syncs
I have conducted tape syncs for NPR, Pushkin Industries, Radiolab, The World, WNYC, Invisibilia, Pacific Content, Politico, Pineapple Street Studios, Little Everywhere, Audible, LAist Studios and many others.
Here are some samples:
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My Kit
Tascam DR -100MKIII audio recorder | Audio Techinca AT897 shotgun mic -
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Field Recording with NPR’s Yuki Noguchi
I worked on location with NPR correspondent Yuki Noguchi while she was reporting a series of stories from Minneapolis. I also contributed original research and conducted interviews that were included in Yuki’s reporting.
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Pod Save America: On the Ground in Iowa
Crooked Media/Pineapple Street Studios
I spent several days recording field audio and interviews at the Iowa State Fair for a limited-run podcast series about the Iowa caucuses.
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The Special
T Brand Studio
I conducted all of the interviews and field reporting for this Minneapolis-focused episode of The Special – a limited-run branded podcast series from the New York Times’ T Brand Studio spotlighting the food, arts and culture of six U.S. cities.
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Uncared For: Reimagining Birth
Lemonada Media
I collected field audio and conducted the anchor interview for the final episode of this narrative podcast series about maternal health.
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The Wilderness
Crooked Media
I recorded field audio and interviews with political strategists and grassroots organizers in central Minnesota for Crooked Media’s podcast about the leadup to the 2020 election.
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To Chan Marshall: A Letter to Cat Power
KCRW
My vox pop interviews with Twin Cities Cat Power fans are woven into this episode of KCRW’s Lost Notes podcast.
