I help media companies tell compelling stories about entertainment, culture, and all that informs it.
I've worked on podcasts that make best-of lists:
▪️ Bottom of the Map (WABE/PRX) was a chatcast about Southern hip-hop that was featured in the New York Times and Apple Podcasts' New and Noteworthy section.
▪️ Vulture named Racket: Inside the Gold Club (School of Humans/iHeartPodcasts) a best new true crime podcast.
▪️ More recently, King Slime: The Prosecution of Young Thug and YSL (Airloom Media/iHeartPodcasts) was nominated in the 2024 Ambie Awards for best documentary podcast.
From 2020 to 2023, I was a regular contributor to NPR's All Songs Considered and Pop Culture Happy Hour podcasts.
Coming up next: a limited series about the rise of Atlanta's cultural influence, where I worked as a host, writer, producer, story editor and booking coordinator. I'm currently available to work and consult on new productions.
This website is a growing directory of people of color who work in audio around the world. You’ll find editors, hosts, writers, producers, sound designers, engineers, project managers, musicians, reporters, and content strategists with varied experience from within the industry and in related fields.
It’s both a place for employers to find POC candidates, and a place where POC can find each other for meetups, collaborations, advice and so on, which means that not everyone you’ll see on here is actively looking for a job.
To our POC family: we see you and we stand with you. Let’s continue to support each other.
If you’re an employer, we need to talk.
*clears throat*
While recruiting diverse candidates is a great first step, it’s not going to be enough if we want the industry to look and sound meaningfully different in the future. Let us be clear: this isn’t about numbers alone. This is about getting the respect that people of color—and people of different faiths, abilities, ages, socioeconomic statuses, educational backgrounds, gender identities, and sexual orientation—deserve. So before you get started, here are the Terms of Service:
I will pay employees a living wage.
I will consider the ways in which my workspace might be hostile to people of color and find concrete ways to support their contributions and wellbeing.
I will continually reflect on how my networks, taste, curiosity, comfort and values are shaped by my race, class, gender, where I grew up, the media I consume, and the fact that we live in a white supremacist culture. This takes time. It will require vulnerability, and a commitment to ongoing learning.
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