The sense of community offered by {the New Voices] program has made me feel so hopeful about my ability to grow a sustainable career, in part because I can witness others growing and thriving in the field.

Having such direct access to other audio creators, emerging and established, is just incredible. Audio can be such a solitary craft, which is part of what I love about it, but it’s also important to me to feel like part of something collective. The sense of community offered by {the New Voices] program has made me feel so hopeful about my ability to grow a sustainable career, in part because I can witness others growing and thriving in the field.

Storytelling is healing for me. As a journalist, you’re always telling the stories of others. But sometimes... you realize the very people you’re profiling are telling your story. A story that you can see yourself in. During the uncertainty, the heartbreak, and the loneliness of the pandemic, it was storytelling that gave me hope and connection to my fellow human kind.

As both a music producer and a radio producer, I see my role as a sort of story facilitator: creating a space where folks feel safe enough to share their stories, and honing my craft (narratively, musically, sonically) so those stories can be shared.