About
I'm a freelance producer, reporter, and editor making audio documentaries.
Work Experience
Lead produced: A podcast about the Atwater Kent Collection, an archive of objects from Philadelphia's history. In collaboration with First Person Arts.
Co-produced: An 8-part series about journalist Jo Piazza’s family and their hundred year long game of telephone about the supposed murder of Jo's great great grandmother Lorenza Marsala.
Contributed editing and writing to: A 6-part series about former Green Bay Packer Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila and his spiral into a new religious movement.
Edited: A 10-part series following 10 Philadelphian's economic goals for a year, produced by Nichole Currie in collaboration with Technical.ly Philly.
Produced: A seven-part investigative series about the murders of three Haitian radio broadcasters in Miami and the geopolitical context of the crimes.
Reported and produced weekly news documentary show, Vice News Reports, hosted by Arielle Duhaime-Ross, in collaboration with reporters across VICE.
Freelanced and worked part-time, contributing stories and production to the newsroom, PlanPhilly, Keystone Crossroads, The Why, and The Pulse. I also helped develop a new Things to Do segment for radio and web.
Recorded audio of a community engagement event series held by The Clay Studio ahead of its move to North Philadelphia.
Wrote weekly articles and long-form features about infrastructure, with a focus on water, public art, housing policy, and counter-cultural mapping.
Taught a weekend art class over 8 weeks for middle- and high-school students about how destruction can be a creative force in art, and how artists engage with social issues to be agents of repair. Also taught introductory book-binding for adults.
Covered council meetings and the municipal ongoings of Whittier, Alaska
Helped develop and maintain an organization system for a collection of 5000 found photographs and began the digitization of the collection. Assisted with research for writing projects.
For a biography of photographer Richard Avedon, culled public and private archives for articles, documents, and personal ephemera
Projects
Three-part podcast series about teachers who carry guns in schools, the policies that allow it, and the trainings where current and former police teach gun skills to the teachers.
A documentary project in photographs, writing and archival materials about the town of Whittier, Alaska.
Features
A QAnon promoting mayor. Armed vigilantes looking to scare off antifa. And a heated fight over... an opioid treatment center?
2020 has been a YEAR, and it’s not done yet. This episode, we hand over the mic to Monaea Upton in North Minneapolis. She’s 17 years old, and she’s been keeping an audio diary of her senior year of high school. Also aired on Snap Judgment.
Tear gas links rural Pennsylvania with Egyptian protests
Strawberry Mansion went from being one of Philadelphia's wealthiest neighborhoods to one of its poorest, from being predominantly white to majority black. Now it seems poised to change again.
Awards
For Silenced: The Radio Murders, from Kaleidoscope and iHeart Media
For Monaea: A 2020 Diary, with VICE Audio
For Monaea: A 2020 Diary, with VICE Audio
For "Siblings and addiction"
For "Shooting people is deescalation: Three days with teachers training to use guns in schools"
For "The Art of Destruction and Repair" class for teens
For "City Under One Roof"
For "City Under One Roof"
Education
Speaking
VICE audio producer Jen Kinney joins us to talk about her 3-part audio series for VICE News Reports, Armed.
Moderated discussion with labor journalist Kim Kelly about the state of independent media
Moderated discussion with Anna Feigenbaum about her book, Tear Gas: From the Battlefields of World War I to the Streets of Today
Moderated discussion with Mitchell Abidor about his book May Made Me
With Next City, Gehl, Philadelphia Parks Alliance and WURD Radio -- a public conversation about the vital role that public parks and recreation centers play in changing neighborhoods.
Reading and discussion of "City Under One Roof"
Panel discussion about role of archives in photographic projects, with Pete Pin and Alex Harris
Side Projects
a weekly philly events newsletter
Exhibitions
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