I'm a podcaster and freelance journalist.
I have 14 years' experience as a journalist, working at national newspapers and international news agencies.
I've been a podcaster for two years now. The first bit of audio I developed and hosted (Black Mirror Cracked) got 20,000 downloads in its first week, and 150,000 over 5 months in 2018.
I currently make a podcast called Freelance Pod, which tells stories about creativity and the digital revolution. It was shortlisted at The Lovie Awards 2019 in the Best Host - Podcasts category, losing out to Anne McElvoy of The Economist Asks.
My guests on Freelance Pod have included Charlie Brooker of Black Mirror fame, Twitter's Director of Curation and producers from BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour and Ed Miliband's Reasons to be Cheerful podcast.
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.”