Leila Day

Leila Day is the co-host, creator and producer of The Stoop Podcast: stories from across the Black diaspora. She’s also a senior editor and producer who has helped create award winning, chart topping programming with Pineapple Street Media. Before her work in podcasting, Leila was a criminal justice and healthcare reporter and eventually became a senior editor at NPR affiliate KALW in San Francisco. She's contributed pieces to NPR, 99% Invisible, PRI and more.

The work she's edited has won various national awards, and her reporting has been recognized by the National Association of Black Journalists, Society of Professional Journalists, PRINDI, and others. Leila has taught at the Transom Storytelling workshop, KALW's Audio Academy, San Quentin State Prison's Media Lab, and is often presenting on subjects like finding your audience, reporting in your own voice, and teaching creative ways to combine personal narrative with journalism. She’s been a guest speaker at the Third Coast Audio Festival, Stanford Storytelling Workshop, Spotify Bootcamp, Harvard, Hearsay Audio Festival, The Wing and other podcast events. For Leila, one of the most fulfilling moments in this field is being an editor and witnessing the exact moment when a producer realizes that a series of disjointed ideas starts shaping into a powerful story.