Hi everyone! My name is Jade and I’m very excited to be a part of POC in Audio space. I’m also a podcast and playlist enthusiast! I grew up listening to Car Talk and Wait Wait Don’t Tell during family road trips and listening to talk radio over the years naturally led me to the world of audio. I started my audio journey about three years ago when I volunteered to edit raw tape for my college and I’ve been all about the podcast life ever since! I really like listening to podcasts like 2 Dope Queens, Black Frasier, Still Processing, Back Issue, Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me and pretty much any podcast with passionate hosts and good intentions :).
After my internship comes to an end at Pineapple Street Studios, I would love to continue improving my skills for mixing podcasts. I am interested in part-time and full-time work. Although my main focus as an engineer has been on podcasts, I have also dabbled in creative writing, song composition, sound design, and a little bit of foley so if you need me to fry some bacon for a rainy soundscape, let me know!
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.
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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.”