Telling True Stories in Sound
was my narrative, audio long-form class at Columbia Journalism School. I worked on pieces that ranged from seven to ten minutes long. All driven by a character and a central animating question, these pieces challenged me in unique ways. I confronted my family about my grandmother’s imminent death, questioned an independent artist about his decision to leave a full-time job in tech to pursue his rap career, and interrogated experts on the value of posthumously publishing Joan Didion’s diary without her consent.
Daniel Alarcón and Leena Sanzgiri were my editors for these stories and my professors for the course.
Kaleidoscope
During the two years I worked at Kaleidoscope, I was a production associate and contributed to shows that asked big questions, like “what does God-tier chocolate taste like?” and “what happened to that Afghan singing show?”, and my favorite, “what can the stars tell us about where we belong?”
You can check out those shows below by clicking on the images below.
Gen Zeal & Between Class
During the pandemic, my friend Dylan Catalano and I produced a podcast spurred by the anxiety that our youth, along with our friends’, would be lost to quarantine and isolation. We wanted people to understand that young people were working hard to forge their paths, so we sat down to talk to them about their convictions, fears, and joys during a time of fear, isolation, and unrest. You can hear the various iterations of Gen Zeal below.
Dylan and I also produced Between Class, a podcast by and for the Big Ten. We hosted student leaders, faculty, and staff from higher education institutions across the country to connect during a moment of heightened isolation.
