Gabrielle is a former Democratic political staffer turned audio and editorial producer. While journeying from Capitol Hill to City Hall, she learned the fundamentals of storytelling and its power to transform how we talk about people, place, identity, culture, and politics. She decided to move beyond regression analysis and policy memos, to better understand the often messy, vibrant, and nuanced human narratives that make people, people — and ultimately impact how they navigate the world around them. Turns out, audio storytelling is the perfect platform to do just that.
From daily news to narrative, she has worked with individuals and organizations to tell the stories that matter to their audiences. Through this medium, Gabrielle champions the stories of black women+ and girls and is the lead producer for award-winning authors and renowned cultural critics Roxane Gay and Tressie McMillan Cottom's hit new podcast, Hear To Slay, exclusively on Luminary Media.
This fall, Gabrielle will publicly debut her new boutique production house, The Woodshaw, a hub for creators of color to tell multimedia stories for us, by us. Stay tuned.
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.
I understand that this directory is not ZipRecruiter, and that expanding my hiring practices requires that I dedicate some time to engaging with potential candidates in a deeper way than simply scanning their years of industry experience.
If you are unable to commit to these terms, please click “I do not accept.”