For almost a decade, I have worked in the entertainment field. From working as a showrunner and social media events manager to a dialogue facilitator at a girl's rock camp, I have committed myself to focusing on the desires of the audience. Now I am taking that focus to the podcasting world. I want to change the scope of what podcasting can look like. As a Black, disabled, queer, and nonbinary person, I aim to amplify the voices of marginalized peoples.
For over a year, I have hosted and produced my own podcast named POWER NOT PITY. Through interviews and commentary, each episode serves as a vehicle for uplifting and preserving the lived experiences of disabled people of color. The podcast provides a space for all people to cultivate access and collaborative liberation in an effort to dismantle ableism.
I am also the 2019 Stitcher Fellow and I am learning sound engineering and production. At the end of the fellowship, I want to build my sound engineering skills. I love the feeling I get when I find the right sounds to keep an episode compelling as possible! I am also looking to meet more POC producers and sound engineers.
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.”