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Dr. Chioke I'Anson is a philosopher and founding Director of Community Media at the VPM+ICA Community Media Center at the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University. He created RESONATE and has been heard on shows like Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, Everything is Alive, Love + Radio, and the 11th.
Kelly is a freelance audio producer and writer. Her work has appeared on NPR, the BBC, and Slate, and in the Atlantic. She coaches competitive gymnastics in Charlottesville, VA.
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Ray is a combat-decorated retired Army paratrooper., born and raised in Richmond, VA. He has an MA in Public History and an EdS and Doctorate in Education Leadership. He is a Fulbright Specialist Expert in Education and Storytelling Narrative (The only Specialist in this field in the country) and was recently awarded the inaugural Black Appalachian Storytelling Fellowship for North Carolina. A former adjunct professor of history and storytelling at several universities, Ray has performed at numerous storytelling festivals and stages across the US and Canada.
His stories have appeared in Reader’s Digest (2016 Best Stories in America and 2017 American Heroes edition). As a competitive storyteller, Ray is a 12-time Moth Story Slam Champion and winner of the 2016 National Storytelling Festival Story Slam. His stories have been featured on radio shows produced by The Moth, Snap Judgment (Toured with the Live shows of Both Snap Judgment, Spooked and the Moth) and Back Story as well as an array of podcasts including Spooked, Story Collider, AdultISH, The Confessional and Risk.
He resides in the remote mountains of Watauga County, NC. From this mountain oasis, he produces and hosts his own podcast What’s Ray Saying? a show that uses history and story to explore the Black American experience from the unique perspective of the many worlds Ray inhabits.
PRESENTERS
Audio Flux celebrates the art, craft, and impact of audio storytelling.
Audio Flux is a space for all: first-timers, longtime producers and audio fans alike.
Avery Trufelman is the host and producer of Articles of Interest, a show about what we wear. She has been named one of the 500 most important people in fashion by Business Of Fashion. She is an emerita of 99% Invisible, where she was a staff producer
Ayeesha Menon’s play RAMAYANA RESET was performed at the National Theatre as a part of the Connections festival, 2022. She has co-written Episode 6 of Grantchester Season 9 for ITV. In the category of Best Adaptation at the BBC Audio Drama Awards, Ayeesha adaptation of THE JUNGLE BOOK won in 2022 and A TALE OF TWO CITIES won in 2019. Her MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN won the Outstanding Achievement award in 2018. She has won Sony Awards for her adaptations of Q&A (Slumdog Millionaire) and THE CAIRO TRILOGY.
Davy is an audio writer and creator whose work on networks like Radiotopia, Wondery, and Audible, among others, has won multiple awards and honors. He is also a director, playwright, and performer, and writes comedy for the most senior comedy writing team at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City. As Head of Tribeca Audio and Curator of Audio Storytelling, he oversees all things audio at the Tribeca Festival.
As Radio Workshop's senior podcast producer, Dhashen trains and partners with young reporters to make audio documentaries in Africa. Previously, he spent 14 years working his way through nearly every major newsroom position on public radio and television in South Africa. As a freelancer, he's contributed to The NYT, NPR, BBC, VOA, 99% Invisible, Foreign Policy, Vanity Fair, Vice, Unicef, Channel4News, and The Africa Report.
Gabby Bulgarelli is a senior audio producer based in Brooklyn who creates immersive documentaries about music. She's currently working freelance with clients such as Billboard Magazine, Wax Poetics, and Issa Rae's Raedio. Her work seeks to put Black music history in conversation with contemporary culture in an informative and engaging way. As the Senior Producer of Louder Than A Riot from NPR Music, she reported on everything from the way the Black femme body is policed to the trial of Tory Lanez to the history of the bad bitch archetype.
James Kim is a Los Angeles based podcast creator and founder of Overtones Media. He created the Webby nominated fiction podcast "You Feeling This?" in collaboration with iHeartRadio. It made its debut at Tribeca Film Festival 2023. He also co-created the Apple TV+ docu-fiction podcast "Magnificent Jerk'' which was named one of the "Best Podcasts of 2023" by The New Yorker. Previously, he worked with Netflix, Disney, NPR, Spotify, Gimlet, Marvel, TCM, and HBO.
Jason Reynolds is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty books for children and young adults, including his most recent, Twenty-Four Seconds from Now. He is best known for his novels All American Boys (co-written with Brendan Kiely), the Track series, and Long Way Down, which received Newbery, Printz, and Coretta Scott King Honors. Among Jason’s many accolades, he was named the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature by the Library of Congress for 2020-2022, and he was recently recognized as a 2024 MacArthur Foundation Fellow. He is on faculty at Lesley University, for the Writing for Young People MFA Program and lives in Washington, DC. You can find his ramblings at JasonWritesBooks.com.
Jazmine (JT) Green is an audio documentarian by trade and artist by practice. She is the founder of Molten Heart, a duPont-Columbia award-winning creative and commercial studio focused on the texture of sound. Molten Heart’s collaborators include The Met, Stitcher Studios, and Audible. Her practice explores the spiritual qualities of improvisation, the convergence of technology and the human body, and the intersection of gender and race through visual, performance, and sound art.
Jemma Rose Brown is an artist, strategist and curator of cultural programs raised & based in NYC. Her approach is shaped by a decade+ career in podcasts and the audio industry. She is the General Manager of The Signal Awards, Co-Creator of On Air Fest and Co-Founder of Cosmophage Collective. Previously, she was the Director of creative agency work x work and a Producer at The Moth. Her projects have been covered widely in Vanity Fair, Wired, Forbes, Rolling Stone & more.
John DeLore is an audio enthusiast, renowned radio/podcast sound designer, producer, and editor, with a career that spans from his time at WNYC/New York Public Radio, to the start-up days of Gimlet, to Stitcher. These days John runs his independent production shop Starlight Diner (where he's worked on Constellation Prize: Nightwalking, the award-winning series Weight for It, the 4th season of the now independent Paris Review, and most recently the third season of In the Dark from the New Yorker). In 2023, along with Julie Shapiro, John co-founded Audio Flux, a new home for independent audio.
Juleyka Lantigua is the Founder/CEO of LWC Studios, which received a Peabody Award nomination and won “The Director’s Prize” at Third Coast award, also known as “The Oscars of Audio.”A Fulbright Scholar and Tory Burch Fellow, Juleyka holds a Master’s in Journalism and an MFA in Creative Writing. She serves on the board of governors of The Podcast Academy, the boards of directors of Latino Media Network and TechBridge Girls.
Julie Shapiro is a career listener, collaborator, and audio enthusiast. She co-founded Audio Flux with John DeLore in 2023. Before that whe was Vice President of Editorial, PRX, and Executive Producer of PRX's Radiotopia, where she co-founded and executive produced the Ear Hustle podcast, Over the Road, and Radiotopia Presents, among other award winning shows. In 2000, she co-founded the Third Coast International Audio Festival, where as artistic director she shaped the Festival's creative trajectory and nurtured a robust international listening culture.
Lauren Shippen is a writer best known for her work in fiction podcasts. She was the creator and sole writer of the popular audio drama The Bright Sessions, which ran from 2015 to 2021. She went on to write and direct the #1 podcasts Bridgewater and Passenger List, for which she received an iHeart Podcast Award and BBC Audio Drama Award, Webby, and two British Podcast Awards respectively. She has written three novels with Tor Teen.
Lesedi Mogoatlhe is the Editor and Host for the Radio Workshop podcast. She worked with the organisation for several years training youth in radio production across Africa. She designed and trained one of Radio Workshop’s first podcast projects with LGBTI+ activists and organizations in Zimbabwe, Zambia and South Africa. Today, she continues to design curriculum, train and mentor young journalists across Africa. Lesedi harnessed her storytelling skills in TV and Film, where she worked for over 15 years.
Mia Lobel is a veteran audio producer, manager, and educator, and the former VP of Content and Production at Pushkin Industries where she oversaw all podcasts including Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History, Justin Richmond's Broken Record, and many more. She's also the author of the Freelance Cafe Substack where she writes provocative essays about the podcast industry and challenges executives and creators to think differently about their business strategies.
Nichole Hill is an award-winning showrunner, audio producer and creator of the podcasts The Secret Adventures of Black People and the upcoming series Our Ancestors Were Messy, a 2024 Official Tribeca Audio Selection. She got her start in audio fiction as an Associate Producer for The Truth podcast with Radiotopia and she can even be heard doing some voice acting work in select episodes (shout out to the OGs!) Her other work includes showrunning for the podcasts I Am America with Tracee Ellis Ross, She Has a Name with Tonya Mosley, Vox's Land of the Giants: Dating Games season, and The Qube and PRX's Second Sunday podcast.
Ronald Young Jr. is an audio producer, host, and storyteller, based in Alexandria, VA. He is the host of the critically acclaimed podcast Weight For It, which was an official Tribeca Selection in 2023 as well as receiving accolades from Vulture, Vogue, and The New York Times. Weight For It also received a historic three Podcast Academy Awards in 2024 including Best Society and Culture Podcast, Best Indie Podcast and Best Indie Podcast Host.
Sarah Esocoff is an audio documentarian and multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She is the creator and host of Sounds Gay, an IDA Documentary Award-nominated podcast about queer music culture. She has also produced podcasts about the sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church, celebrities’ high school experiences, and ’80s music. She studied long-form narrative podcasting at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies and holds a BA from Wesleyan University. In addition to her documentary work, Sarah is a painter, musician, and comedy writer for publications like Reductress.
Shaun Michael Colón is an American filmmaker, writer, and producer, best known for his documentary film "A Fat Wreck", which chronicles the history and impact of the punk rock record label Fat Wreck Chords. He is known for his passion for audio, his prioritization of collaboration, community, social awareness, inclusivity in art, and his efforts to document, promote and support art & culture through his work
SPECIAL PERFORMANCES
Friday: Live performance by Dennis Funk
Dennis Funk presents the first issue of the impending Written In Air Quarterly — a literary magazine for your ears.
Featuring new sound works from: Craig Eley, Julie Piñero, Rebecca Nolan, Sai Sion and Tej Adeleye
Saturday: Ascending the Whirlpool by Jemma Rose Brown
THE RESONATE PITCH PARTY, SPONSORED BY VPM
The RESONATE Pitch Party, sponsored by VPM, is a pitch contest held at RESONATE Podcast Festival this October. Three jury-selected producers will pitch their shows to a panel of judges, Shark Tank style, and one winner will receive $10,000 to produce their podcast pilot. The search for the top three has begun and we want you to apply.
CHECK OUT A UNIQUE FEEDBACK AND MENTORING OPPORTUNITY:
This year, we are happy to be joined by Radio Club Collective, who will mobilize their amazing members for Tune-Up sessions at the festival. 30 minutes of dedicated attention from a podcast mentor can go a long, long way. You should sign up.
THANKS TO OUR PITCH PARTY JURORS:
Chenjerai Kumanyika
Vivian Le
Amanda Aronczyk
Twila Dang
Chris Bannon
Alan Black
Anna Stitt
Nick van der Kolk
Marina Hanna
Yooree Losordo
GOOD TAPE
Dane Cardiel and co are once again bringing their print magazine for podcasting, with articles that get at the very core of podcast culture. Purchase a copy for your own at a RESONATE near you.
THANKS TO OUR RESONATE PARTNERS AND SPONSORS
THE AFTERPARTY
Begins at 8:30 at The ICA with a participatory parade led by Jemma Rose Brown and culminating with a gathering at Common House Richmond. Join us for music, drinks, and a view of the city from the rooftop bar.
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