Tiara Darnell
Location
- Buffalo, NY
Portfolio
Tiara is available for
Tiara is open to producer or editor roles for podcasts or radio. She's open to relocation and remote-friendly opportunities.- Business
- Editing
- Engineering
- Music
- Producing
- Recording
- Reporting
- Voice
About Tiara
Tiara Darnell is a freelance writer, podcaster, and visual storyteller based in Buffalo, NY and Portland, Oregon.
She is the Editor of NATAL, a podcast about having a baby while Black in the U.S.
She is the host and producer of High, Good People, a personal "potcast" that explores the relationships between people of color and cannabis in the new age of legalization.
Tiara is a graduate of the Transom Storytelling workshop at Seattle's KUOW (2020). She was also selected out of 18,000 applicants to attend Spotify's inaugural Sound Up Bootcamp for emerging women of color podcasters.
Tiara's words have appeared in Portland Monthly, Travel Oregon, Broccoli Magazine, Travel Portland, Sprudge, Willamette Week, and Medium.com among other publications.
Tiara is a Maryland native, and a returned Peace Corps Morocco volunteer. She holds dual Masters of Science in Strategic Communications and Multimedia Journalism from the University of Oregon (Portland) School of Journalism and Communication.
Tiara's Portfolio
We Out Here: From Chicago to Sumpter with Portia Mittons
High, Good People is a "potcast" that explores the relationships between people of color and cannabis in the new age of legalization.
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E1: It's not easy being Black in Oregon, a state originally founded as a white utopia. For Portia Mittons, a transplant from Chicago, it's even harder: She's the only person of color in Sumpter, Oregon--a town more than five hours east of Portland, population, roughly 200 people. She moved there to open the Coughie Pot, a cannabis dispensary the town didn't want, but legally was powerless to stop despite multiple attempts.
In this episode Tiara takes a road trip to Sumpter to meet Portia, to find out the Coughie Pot's origin story, and to learn how Sumpter got got by ganja.
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E1: It's not easy being Black in Oregon, a state originally founded as a white utopia. For Portia Mittons, a transplant from Chicago, it's even harder: She's the only person of color in Sumpter, Oregon--a town more than five hours east of Portland, population, roughly 200 people. She moved there to open the Coughie Pot, a cannabis dispensary the town didn't want, but legally was powerless to stop despite multiple attempts.
In this episode Tiara takes a road trip to Sumpter to meet Portia, to find out the Coughie Pot's origin story, and to learn how Sumpter got got by ganja.
E1: Myeshia's Story
NATAL is podcast about having a baby while Black in the U.S.
This podcast is supported by a grant from the University of Southern California's Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, and a grant from the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
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Myeshia is a married, 34-year-old cis Black queer woman with a PhD. Two weeks after giving birth to her first child, things take a turn for the worse in a Southern California emergency room.
This podcast is supported by a grant from the University of Southern California's Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, and a grant from the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
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Myeshia is a married, 34-year-old cis Black queer woman with a PhD. Two weeks after giving birth to her first child, things take a turn for the worse in a Southern California emergency room.
Experience
Skills
- Audience Development
- Audio Engineering
- Field Producing
- Field Recording
- Hosting
- Interviewing
- Logistics and Coordination
- Marketing
- Mixing
- Producing
- Reporting
- Research
- Show Development
- Sound Design
- Story Editing
- Tape Syncs
- Voice Coaching
Equipment
- Adobe Audition
- Hindenburg
- Zoom H5N
- Zoom H6N
- Sennheiser e845
- Røde NTG2 shotgun microphone
- Røde Podcaster Pro microphone