President Obama’s announcement to begin normalizing relations with Cuba marks the most significant change in US policy toward the island nation in a half century. But as America looks to make it easier to travel to the country and establish more economic ties, what does that mean for the average Cuban or Cuban American? In…
Deborah Pearson Woodhouse shares her love for the Wesleyan chapel, where Neely Bruce played The Giraffe Waltz as she walked down the aisle for her wedding. We couldn’t find a recording of the waltz, so he played it again, just for us. Such a lovely little ditty. 🙂 [soundcloud id=’191008304′]
I knew Judd Hall as the psych building, but back in the day, it was a Natural History Museum. Paul Hadzima worked there and shares this story.
It’s not every day you get to interview one of your radio idols about your mutual alma mater. WNYC president Laura Walker came to the storytelling booth with two pals – pretty impressive characters themselves. [soundcloud id=’208827300′]
My latest program for IEEE Spectrum – this one on Cars of the Future. My 3-year-old and his best friend even have a cameo! FutureCar: Accelerating Into the Future –Â Looking at three- and four-wheeled automobiles, high-mileage cars, driverless vehicles, hybrid supercars, and more.
I produced segments A and C of this hour-long program on the Future of Work for IEEE Spectrum Radio. Technological advances have put us on the edge of a new industrial revolution. The program explores how technology will redefine the culture of work. Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor and professor of public policy at the…
WAMC’s 51% recently aired this non-narrated story I produced about experimental musician Susan Alexjander. She uses vibrational frequencies from the natural world – from DNA to planetary spins – to create her music.
I recently finished work on another hour-long doc by producer Trey Key: The Long Game: Texas’ Ongoing Battle for the Direction of the Classroom. For more than a half a century, citizens of the Lone Star State have had intense, emotional battles over what children should and shouldn’t be taught in public school classrooms.   While there have…
I helped produce this hour-long doc for IEEE Spectrum: Grokking Democracy, how technology is changing the democratic process. My main contributions are the interviews with Ethan Roeder and Jim Gilliam. Pretty thrilling to work with Lisa Mullins whose voice I’ve admired for a long, long time.
I produced these two segments for IEEE Spectrum‘s “Engineers of the New Millennium” series and I was just blown away by the amazing work these people do. You can hear the full hour HERE. [soundcloud id=’114809322′] [soundcloud id=’114808396′]