Stephanie Tam

Stephanie Tam is an audio producer, researcher and writer. She has worked for various podcast shows and studios, including Freakonomics Radio, Radiolab, and Maeve in America, and WNYC Studios. She's also helped to produce new series for First Look Media, Theos Think Tank, the Centre for Effective Altruism, and NYT-bestselling author James Clear.

As a producer, she’s known for her ability to swiftly metabolize a wide range of interdisciplinary material and to craft compelling narratives around complex issues. Special research and reporting interests include psychology, immigration, behavioral economics, postcolonial politics, sociolinguistics, and medical history — but her omnivorous curiosity means those interests expand to just about anything, from the science of trees, the calculated risk of playing football, and the economics of altruism, to the quirky history of invented languages.

Before her adventures in audio, she pursued her love of storytelling and the social sciences through two master’s degrees in evidence-based social intervention and world literatures as a fully-funded Daniel M. Sachs Scholar at the University of Oxford; she also graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's in English literature from Princeton University. Her writing has been published in various outlets, including The Believer, the Behavioral Scientist, and Slate. She has been interviewed about her reporting on language politics for KERA’s Think.

She is also working on a hybrid, fantastical novel about an immigrant family that spans three generations, two continents, and an ocean across which dreams were lost. Her literary agent is Clare Alexander.