communications strategy, content strategy, social media
Formats / Genre
Interviews / Roundtable
Narrative Non-fiction / Documentary
News / Journalism
Fiction
Experimental
Daily shows
Languages spoken
English
Open to relocating
Yes
Open to branded content?
Yes
More about me
Sarah Kyo is a storyteller and writing/editing/communications/audio professional based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The breadth of her current and previous work includes writing and editing scripts and articles, developing podcast and audio pieces, collaborating on multimedia and reach materials, designing print layouts, managing social media accounts, and producing a television episode that aired on her local PBS station. She has created content for Fortune 500 companies and institutions of higher education.
A graduate of San José State University’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications, Sarah was honored to be selected for the 2017 Transom Traveling Workshop at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan. She has also participated in classes through the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, the Writing Pad in San Francisco, and Podcast Moguls with Nicaila Matthews Okome of Side Hustle Pro.
She is open to new opportunities to create, collaborate, learn, grow, and give back to her community.
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.
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