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WORK EXPERIENCE

VP of Content & Production / Executive Producer, Pushkin Industries (2018-2022)
As “employee #1” at Malcolm Gladwell and Jacob Weisberg’s independent production house, helped build the company from the ground up. Oversee Pushkin’s slate of 28+ podcasts and actively support development of new shows. Ensure proper staffing for podcasts, audiobooks, and pilots. Built a departmental structure for scalable production and manage the leads of those departments.

Managing Producer / Lead Producer, Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History, Panoply Media (2016 – 2018)
Built the team and lead development and production of Malcolm Gladwell’s hit podcast, now in its 7^th season. Ensured smooth and timely delivery of all episodes, working closely with legal, marketing, and ad sales departments to guarantee quality, reach a large audience, and be profitable. Mixed and scored all episodes. Oversaw production on a number of other shows including By the Book, Family Ghosts, and Maria Konnikova’s The Grift. Managed six direct reports and numerous contractors.

Executive Producer, America Abroad (2014 – 2015)
Developed the editorial direction for America Abroad Media’s monthly public radio documentary and oversaw the writing, editing, and production of the program, including quarterly live town hall discussions. Hired freelancers worldwide to report stories on complex topics in foreign policy and international relations and helped them craft compelling, informative, and sound-rich features. Managed production schedule and ensured that shows were released on time and at the highest broadcast quality. Oversaw social media and other online content.

Co-Creator / Senior Producer, Distillations Podcast, Science History Institute (2007 – 2013)
Co-creator/Senior Producer: Produced award-winning podcast for the Philadelphia-based non-profit Chemical Heritage Foundation. Recruited and supervised international team of more than 200 independent producers to create content for the show. Wrote host transitions, revised and edited commentaries, interviews, and features, and mixed each show for a broad audience. 10,000+ downloads / month. Also produced Stories from the Field, an oral history project focused on women in science.

Public Radio Freelance Producer/Reporter (2003 – 2016)
Produced spot news, feature stories, oral histories, and museum tours for local, national, and international broadcast. Covered a wide range of topics including science and technology, education, business, arts, and the environment. Worked closely with executive producers and editorial teams. For each news item or feature: conduct background research, gather tape, write scripts, edit, voice, and mix stories for on-air use. Programs include: IEEE Spectrum Radio, Wesleyan University, The Whitney, Pulse of the Planet, The Sound and Story Project, The Tavis Smiley Show, KQED Radio News, The California Report, Latino USA, and Antenna Audio.

Producer / Educator, Youth Radio (2001 – 2003)
Produced commentaries, public affairs programming, and feature-length pieces for local and national broadcast on commercial and public radio stations/programs including: Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Marketplace, KCBS, and KQED. Taught beginning and advanced radio broadcast classes to young people ages 14-18 and supervised interns ages 16-24. Training included: news and commentary writing, public affairs production, booking guests, feature reporting, gathering tape, script writing, voicing, editing, mixing, and post-production.

B-Side Radio (2001 – 2010)
Founding Producer: Write, edit, and produce alternative 30-minute monthly radio program and podcast. Focus on first-person narratives and untold stories from the Bay Area and beyond. Work with a team of producers/editors to conceive show themes, find and train reporters, and thoroughly edit all pieces to meet our high standards for writing, reporting and sound production.

Tellme Networks – Creative Services (2003 – 2006)
Audio Producer: Worked closely with project managers, UI designers, developers and QA engineers to produce top-quality voice activated phone systems used by millions of callers a day. Responsibilities included working with a design team to create a natural-sounding user interface, directing voice talent to match character specifications, recording, editing and delivering audio files using Pro-Tools and in-house audio management software, and tuning completed applications to sound seamless. Managed multiple projects in a fast-paced, high-tech environment. Clients included UPS, USAA, Merrill Lynch, and worldwide directory assistance.

National Public Radio – The Tavis Smiley Show (2003)
Fill-in Producer: Pitched and produced show segments, wrote and edited scripts, booked guests, digitally edited interview segments, prepared stories/interviews for national network, participated in editorial staff meetings, and performed other duties as required.

Terrain Magazine (1999 – 2001)
Editorial Manager: Hired, trained and managed team of editorial assistants for Northern California environmental magazine. Assisted editor-in-chief with copyediting, researching, art/photo selection, correspondence, fact checking, administrative duties and some writing assignments.

TEACHING AND RELATED EXPERIENCE

Adjunct Professor – CUNY Graduate School of Journalism (2010 – present)

Fundamentals of Multimedia Storytelling
Teach 6-week intensive intro audio class to first-semester graduate students. Emphasis on recording, writing, and voicing radio news stories in a concise and conversational style. Focus on short news spots and voicers, from 20 seconds to two minutes.

Audio Podcasting
This advanced level workshop focuses on creating and packaging news and information for broadcast and download via the internet. Students will rotate duties as producers, reporters, and editors on a professionally hosted and produced news magazine, AudioFiles. Prerequisite: Audio News Writing & Reporting or permission of the instructor.

January Academy – Sound Science
In this hands-on audio workshop, students learn to take a complex scientific idea or story, break it down into character, plot, and setting, and develop it into an engaging narrative for a wide audience. Students discuss how to find and talk to scientists, how to get scientists to talk to you in a language everyone can understand, and how to make science sing. Plus, students learn how to fact-check science stories for accuracy and balance. Students will workshop and pitch their ideas in class.

Adjunct Professor – Marist College (Fall 2010)

COM285 History of Broadcasting
Taught semester-long course for upper-level broadcast majors. Course is an overview of broadcasting in a historical and social context. For each decade since the advent of wireless communications, students learn to define and understand the events that shaped broadcasting and how broadcasting influenced those events.

Instructor/Facilitator (2009 – present)

International Center of Photography/New Media Narratives: Audio Storytelling – a hands-on audio workshop teaching the basics of recording audio for multimedia. Students learn how to record interviews and ambient sound, edit and mix tracks, and discuss the basics of taking an idea or story, breaking it down into character, plot, and setting, and developing it into an engaging audio narrative for their audiences.

Sound and Story Project: My Music. My Story (for teens): What’s the song you play over and over again? The one you cue up when you want to dance, relax, reminisce or dream? Bring that special song to this workshop and you’ll discover how to weave your story with your song into a one-of-a-kind remix. In the process you’ll leave how to conduct an audio interview using the latest digital recorders and how to edit sound using free audio editing software.

Wing and Clover: Teach Intro to Digital Audio Storytelling workshops – basic digital audio recording & editing to produce public-radio-style features, oral histories, and other sound-rich documentaries. Includes interview and recording techniques, tips for telling stories with sound, and basic digital editing/mixing.

Bard College/Citizen Science: Taught Sound Science, a hands-on audio workshop in which students learn to take a complex scientific idea or story, break it down into character, plot, and setting, and develop it into an engaging narrative for a wide audience.  Includes basic digital recording and editing, how to write for the ear, how to talk to scientists, and how to talk about science in an interesting and accessible way.

UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism: Designed and taught 4-session podcast production class. Students learned to produce a podcast from pitch development to final distribution and marketing.
KALX-FM: Taught half-day workshops to UC Berkeley undergrads interested in working at college radio station. Covered best recording practices, audio editing, voicing, script writing and mixing for on-air use.

Founder/Organizer (2007 – present)
Freelance Café: Created and manage support, networking, and resource collective for freelancers, artists, contractors, and other independents. Coordinate email communication, social media outreach, and occasional monthly gatherings. Provide job postings, grant opportunities, and event listings to diverse national community.

Photojournalist (1989 – 2001)
Press Photographer: Provided press photographs and headshots for small production companies throughout the Bay Area.
Photojournalist: Hartford Courant and La Nacion (Santiago, Chile) – Photographed national news events, press conferences, sports, theater productions, protest demonstrations, and presidential inaugurations. Assisted in editing process working closely with head photography editor and staff photographers.

EDUCATION

Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, University of California at Berkeley
Masters of Journalism, 2001
Key coursework: Radio journalism, photojournalism, cultural reporting, magazine publishing, copyediting.
Thesis: The Redevelopment of Bayview Hunters Point – a half hour radio documentary on the environmental injustice faced by an African American community living in one of San Francisco’s most toxic neighborhoods.

Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Bachelor of Arts, 1997
Major: Anthropology

Universidad de Chile, Santiago
Semester Study Abroad, Spring/Summer 1996
Focus of Study: Anthropology, Photojournalism

Voice Media, San Francisco, CA
Beginning and advanced voice over workshops including character building, narration, and acting for voiceover.

HONORS AND AWARDS

2021 Winner: British Podcast Awards – Revisionist History (Executive Producer)
2020/2021: Winner: iHeartRadio Podcast Awards, Best History Podcast – Revisionist History (Executive Producer)
2017 Winner:People’s Voice Awards (Webby) Best Individual Episode: “My Little Hundred Million,” Revisionist History (Producer)
2016 Winner: Gracie Award, Public Radio Doc – Understanding Islamic Feminism (Executive Producer/Editor)
2015 Winner: Third Coast Award for Best News Feature – Burma’s Rohingya: Easy Prey for Traffickers (Editor)
2014 Winner: SPJ National Mark of Excellence Award – Beleaguered School in Far Rockaway Bounces Back (Editor)
2012 Winner: Science Studio’s Best Multimedia on the Web – Wrecked! (Producer)
2011 Winner: Alfred I. duPont Columbia University Award – The Great Textbook War (Associate Producer)
2010 Winner: Peabody Award – The Great Textbook War (Associate Producer)
2009 Winner: New York Festivals Award – Distillations (Senior Producer)
2009 Fellow: Knight Digital Media Center’s Multimedia Reporting and Convergence Workshop
2009 Fellow: SoundVision Productions’ Science Literacy Project
2006 Winner: Red Sox Award For Doing the Impossible – Tellme Networks
2003 Winner: NFCB Silver Reel Award – B-side’s “Caught on Tape”(Producer)
2001 Winner: Peabody Award – Youth Radio (Associate Producer)
2001 Winner: PRNDI Award for Student Soft Feature – Computers with Voices (reporter)
2001 Winner: North Gate Prize for Excellence in Radio Reporting

SKILLS AND INTERESTS

Digital audio/video production, Pro-Tools, Reaper, Adobe Audition, Audacity, basic Final Cut, Soundslides, WordPress, familiarity with AP Style, proficient Spanish. Parenting, maple sugaring, yoga, baking, book clubbing, music, hiking, jigsaw puzzling.