Audio Storytelling
Podcasts
EU Confidential - POLITICO Europe
This weekly podcast aimed to contextualize the week's most important stories around the European Union. The hybrid style combined interviews with key figures, breaking reporting and panel discussions. As the producer, I helped compile research, guide the recording sessions, transcribe and edit the full episodes. I also posted the episode to the podcast platforms and created social media videos to increase listenership.
EU Commissioner Vĕra Jourová — Remembering Daphne Caruana Galizia — Catalonia dilemma
Catalan independence debate — German election — Court confusion
Harassment discussion — Hope for change — Maroš Šefčovič interview
Show Me The State
Missouri has had a curious history, with many iterations and incarnations powered by changes in its political, cultural and religious climate. Show Me The State explores Missouri’s strange and misunderstood past as it relates to the present.
Did you know Missouri and Iowa almost went to war in the 1800s? Each claimed ownership over a strip of land along the border and believed it had the right to tax the people living there.
Several surveyors drew different lines leaving the disputed land in a tug of war between two petty governors for years.
Stuck in the middle was “The Hairy Nation” – a community of transplants with varied backgrounds – longing to know where they belonged and what their identity was.
Before this story is over, trees with honey beehives will be chopped down, a sheriff will be kidnapped and ragtag militias with kitchenware and garden tools as weapons will march to meet at the border to settle this dispute once and for all.
The Obvious Question
This StoryCorps-style podcast explores assumptions, misconceptions and ignorance others have about people with disability. I produced interviews, scripted and cut the episode.
Can you even walk a runway?
When was the last time you saw a model with a disability? Or a person with a disability featured in an advertising campaign? On a runway? Or even a mannequin in a store that showcased a different ability? It might be hard to recall even one.
True/False Podcast
True/False Film Fest celebrates the complex, surprising and hilarious world we share, and the documentary films that capture it. For this project, I produced two special episodes that incorporated five international interviews.
Rough Cut pt. 1 Rough Cut pt. 2
Shows
Global Journalist
As a supervising producer, I work with a team to pitch, research, book guests and conduct pre-interviews for the weekly deep-dive into international news.
Death squads in the Philippines
In recent days Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte announced that he would withdraw his country from the treaty governing the International Criminal Court. That move came just over a month after the ICC’s top prosecutor announced that she had opened a preliminary investigation into atrocities carried out as part of Duterte’s “War on Drugs.” See more...
China's war on pollution
China's rapid economic growth over the past two decades has been nothing short of remarkable. Of course, there's been a dark side to this growth. See more...
India's witch hunts
For many, witch trials may seem like a relic of early colonial America. But in fact, witch-hunting is still a feature of rural life today in many some of the world. See more...
Reporting
National Public Radio
During the 2018 midterms, President Trump held rallies in Columbia and Cape Girardeau, Missouri. I filed a spot and "Q" previewing the president's last stop before the elections. The spot led the 8:00 a.m. national newscast on November 5.
KBIA
Fall 2016 - Current. Pitch, report and produce day-turns, issue pieces and features. I also help with special coverage including editing reporters in the field and feeding notes to the on-air hosts during election night.
Caring for Alzheimer's Caregivers
Anchoring
KBIA
Spring 2018 I compiled, scripted and anchored the evening newscast airing during All Things Considered.