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Produce sound-rich, narrative audio features for outlets such as BBC 4’s Short Cuts, BBC Radio 3's The Essay, KCRW’s The Organist, Netflix's Prism: Tales of Your City, and others.

Stories of the materials used in making art are often as thought-provoking and illuminating as the objects themselves. From The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Immaterial examines the materials of art and what they can reveal about history and humanity. Each episode looks at a single material: paper, clay, jade, shells, and others, exploring the qualities and meanings that are often overlooked.Immaterial comes to you from Magnificent Noise and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. As sound designer, I worked with producers Eleanor Kagan, Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong, and Elyse Blennerhassett at Magnificent Noise and Sarah Wambold, Benjamin Korman, and Rachel Smith at The Met. Immaterial is hosted by Camille Dungy. The podcast features original music composed by Austin Fisher.

Say You’re Sorry is a timely, insightful podcast series about public apologies, exploring why they’re harder to give (and receive) than you might expect. By going deep on nine different apologies — for everything from YouTube drama to sexual harassment to Cold War experiments — the show offers a new way to think about what it means to say you’re sorry.

Managed sound design, scoring, audio editing, and final mixing. Brain on Nature is a 6-episode documentary series that follows Sarah Allely’s recovery from a traumatic brain injury. Personally audio diaries, conversations with scientists and experts, and immersive field recordings come together to ask if and how time spent in nature can help heal the brain.

Edit the forthcoming season of the Queer Public podcast, which will unpack power dynamics and intersections of privilege in the queer community. Edit story structure, assist in script writing, edit audio for sound quality and consistency, assist with music supervision & scoring.

Assist with podcast research, reporting, producing, and editing. Provide support across a broad spectrum of branded and original content. Pineapple Street Media is a podcast production company based in Brooklyn. Their shows include Missing Richard Simmons, Heaven’s Gate, Still Processing, Women of the Hour, Stay Tuned with Preet Bharara, Never Before with Janet Mock, and more.

I produce original audio content (storytelling, journalism, and experimental sound design) focused on place-based narratives. I work on stories from start to finish, from their narrative development, through research and interviews, and into the final stages of editing and online publishing. As part of a small group of fellow producers all working on independent audio stories, I provide feedback and assist in research, development, and content promotion. I work primarily in Adobe Audition.

Worked with a team from Rhode Island School of Design’s Digital + Media program to help RIPR use interactive technologies and experiential, place-based strategies to move beyond traditional broadcast methods and reach more diverse communities. Conducted interviews with RIPR staff and community members, facilitated visual brainstorming, outlined user experiences through narrative storytelling, and presented RIPR with five experience prototypes.