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Hello! I'm a producer and journalist, living in Toronto. My work has appeared on NPR, CBC, and Science Friday, where I was the senior producer in charge of narrative podcasts. Over the years, I've been an editor, an intern, a new show developer, and a host. These days, I'm a freelance producer and mostly make narrative non-fiction audio. Selected stories below.
In 1998, the businesses in a tiny Outback community got a series of anonymous faxes, letting them know they had a gift waiting for them. It was a miles-long drawing of a man, etched into a plateau. Some people were delighted, others wanted it destroyed, and everyone wanted to know who did it.
[Producer / Voice] In cool, misty forests along the coast of New South Wales Australia, a group of lyrebirds is suspected of singing human songs they learned in the 1920s. A team of researchers sets out to investigate.
(Senior Producer) A five-part series about Frances Kelsey, the doctor who said no to thalidomide. (With host, Katie Hafner, and producer, Sarah Wyman)
(Producer/Voice) Decades after eradicating its wolves, Yellowstone decided to reintroduce them, and the wolves were thriving—until one wolf decided to make life hell for everyone around her.
(Producer) Accidentally sending $1,500 to a stranger on Venmo reveals just how hard it is to get your money back in the new economy.
(Senior Producer) In this five-part series, we tell the story of 1960s psychiatrist, Marie Nyswander, and her controversial approach to addiction. In 1965, a team of doctors at Rockefeller University announced what sounded like a miracle: they'd found a treatment for heroin addiction. Patients who'd dropped out of school were suddenly reconnecting with families and graduating from college. So why were so many people opposed to this treatment?
(Producer) In this episode, Helen Toner, former board member at OpenAI, publicly discussed for the first time what led to Sam Altman's ouster.
(Senior Producer) A mother sets out to raise the perfect child. The first in a three-part series about the Myers-Briggs.
(Senior Producer) A 1960s home economist runs a radical experiment in her preschool laboratory - with big implications for millions of kids living in poverty. Producer: Danya AbdelHameid
(Producer) From vetting resumes to screening candidates, many employers are using AI tools to identify top talent. But what happens when companies start relying on AI to help them decide who to hire or promote…and who to fire?
(Producer) Scientists from the agency say their assessments were altered to downplay the health risks of chemicals.
(Producer) I produced a bunch of episodes for this talk show hosted by Virginia Heffernan, covering everything from a cultural history of public pools to the economics of home ownership.
(Senior Producer) From arson to homicides to forgeries and even the death of chickens, Mary Louisa Willard helped police around the world solve crimes. Producer: Sarah Wyman
(Senior Producer) People used to eat it too.
(Senior Producer) Irregardless, the dictionary's got your back.
(Producer) Science is supposed to be self-correcting, but admitting mistakes is easier said than done.
(Producer, On-air reporter) We've been trying to predict the outcomes of elections for a long time, and that might be a problem.
Like many new, exciting artistic technologies before it, the development of AI is begging us to ask: what counts as art? In a provocative conversation, Claire Silver, an anonymous AI collaborative artist, sits down with Bilawal to talk about how AI has revolutionized her own mixed media practice, and why she thinks that AI may be an inextricable part of human creativity in the near future.
(Senior Producer/ Editor) Before Oreo, there was a nearly identical cookie on the market. A much-loved cookie with a terrible name.
(Producer, Host) A rookie scientist finds out he's been scooped by a faraway stranger with a big reputation. Co-produced with Alexa Lim & co-hosted with Annie Minoff.
(Producer, Host) When researchers publish a new study on chronic fatigue syndrome, a group of patients cry foul-and decide to investigate for themselves.
(Producer, Host) A turn of the century German doctor sets out to prove that homosexuality is rooted in biology--but how useful was that to gay people?
(Investigative reporter) An agency inside the Obama administration poured billions into fossil fuel projects that will lead to global carbon emissions on a damaging scale. In this investigative fellowship, I focused on US-funded the natural gas plant in the Great Barrier Reef.
(Producer, Voice) My first ever radio story. Before she was launched to fame, the trans writer, producer and activist, Janet Mock and her partner, shared their love story, starting with the moment she first came out to him.