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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.
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Axel Kacoutié is an Audio Artist and poet who's been weaving sound, music, and words to challenge the familiar and revive a magic in the mundane.
PRESENTERS
Keisha “TK” Dutes is an independent audio producer, writer, educator, and the creator of The Secret Life of TK, a nonlinear experimental audio biography that explores identity, travel, and transformation.Her production credits include acclaimed shows like BuzzFeed’s Thirst Aid Kit, Function with Anil Dash, Good Words with Kirk Franklin, and Open World, among others. As a host, she’s brought her voice and perspective to WBAI's Rise Up Radio and TK in The AM a thrice weekly live streaming morning show on Bondfire Radio. She’s also contributed as a reporter and talent for NPR and Slate, and taught podcasting through platforms like Spotify, PRX Podcast Garage, and BRIC Arts Media.
Aaron Edwards is a writer, story editor and director working across text, stage and audio. His work has appeared at BAM, Lincoln Center and the Tribeca Festival. He's based in the Hudson Valley.
Mitra Kaboli is an award-winning audio producer, sound designer, and multimedia artist working professionally in radio and podcasting since 2012. Mitra was one of the original members of the Peabody Finalist podcast, The Heart. Her work has been featured on ESPN’s 30 for 30 Podcasts, the BBC, Making Contact and NY Mag’s Tabloid. In 2022, she hosted and produced the critically acclaimed podcast, Welcome to Provincetown. Currently, Mitra is an adjunct professor at CUNY and host of Selects.
Isaac Kestenbaum is the co-founder, along with Josephine Holtzman, of the audio production company Future Projects. Along with James Dommek, Jr, they created the podcast Alaska Is the Center of the Universe (2023) and Midnight Son (2019) for Audible Originals, the latter of which was recently adapted for Hulu as the documentary film Blood and Myth.
Isaac is also the director of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies at the Maine College of Art & Design, as well as a 2008 Salt graduate. He is the former production manager at StoryCorps, and has also worked as a newspaper reporter and a commercial lobsterman.
Emily Kwong (she/her) is an audio journalist working at the crossroads of sociopolitical history, family memory, and science. She is the host and co-creator of Inheriting, a show about Asian American and Pacific Islander families. The first season won the 2025 Ambie Award for Best Society and Culture Podcast, the Silver Signal Award for Best History Podcast, and the 2025 RFK Journalism Award in Radio. For the last four years, Emily has also been the co-host of Short Wave, NPR's flagship science show. Emily got her start as a youth media instructor at WNYC’s Radio Rookies and a daily reporter at the community radio station KCAW in Sitka, Alaska. For four years, she chased stories up fishing boats and onto volcanoes, broadcasting to an island community.
Lesedi Mogoatlhe is the Editor and Host for the Radio Workshop podcast, with extensive experience training youth in podcasting and radio production across Africa. She has over 15 years of experience in TV and film, and holds an MA in documentary filmmaking from Sussex University. Lesedi also qualified as an Integral Coach from UCT School of Business, and uses storytelling principles in her Coaching Practice, Ditoro.
Dhashen is Radio Workshop’s senior producer. He is currently working on an audio documentary series about how South Africa’s energy transition can be just. Previously, Dhashen spent 14 years working his way through nearly every newsroom position on public radio and television in South Africa, including news anchor, reporter, and editor. He has contributed to The New York Times, NPR, BBC, VOA, Foreign Policy and Vanity Fair, and won fellowships from the United Nations, Bloomberg, Earth Journalism Network, Netherlands Fellowship Program, and the prestigious International Visitor Leadership Program. His past stories have won awards from the International Documentary Association, Signal Awards and One World Media.
Shima Oliaee is the founder of Shirazad Productions. Her work focuses on the stories of the marginalized, voices forced into silence, often ignored or maligned by the media.
Pink Card, Shirazad’s first independently-produced series, premiered in 2023 at ESPN 30 for 30. Oliaee’s follow-up series The Competition debuted in 2024. For Radiolab, Oliaee created Dolly Parton’s America, The Flag and the Fury, and The Vanishing of Harry Pace. In 2018, her series UnErased was named podcast of the year by KQED News. In 2023 Adweek named Oliaee podcast producer of the year.
Heidi Shin is a journalist, writer + podcast producer based in Boston, who is especially interested in the stories of immigrant communities and the inevitable connections between stories from abroad and our lives here in the US.Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, BBC, PRX The World, WGBH, National Geographic, Atlas Obscura, Snap Judgment, GroundTruth Project, Califorrnia Sunday Magazine amongst other outlets. Awards include an ONA, a Webby, Signal Awards, Edward R. Murrow Award, Asian American Journalists Association Award, Religion News Association Award, Society for Features Journalism Award, and The New Yorker Festivals Radio Award.
Laura Ubaté (she/her) is a Creative Project Manager, Story Editor, and Audio storyteller. A former public radio journalist, her work has been featured in award-winning narrative nonfiction podcasts of Audible, Spotify, Adonde Media and BBC World, among others. Laura has mentored more than 20 Latinx creators in five countries and founded Colombia’s first podcaster community, El Café Podcastero. Her podcasts "Juventud Maldito Vacío" and "Viajes Inmóviles" have been showcased in Colombia, Mexico, and Spain.
Laura is a 2025 AIR Media New Voices Fellow and the winner of the Diversity Fellowship from the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in 2021. She has been a Member of the Jury at for the Signal, IWPA and IDA Awards (US) and Premios Ondas (Spain).
Yi Yang is a cross‑cultural storyteller and podcast industry pioneer with over a decade of experience in audio. His work has been featured on This American Life and the BBC World Service, and a Chinese-language podcast he produced earned the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Award for Excellence in Audio Reporting. Yang co‑created Left‑Right, a Mandarin-language cultural podcast that became a breakout success and helped shape China’s modern podcasting scene. As the co-founder of JustPod - China’s leading podcast network - 50 shows reaching more than over 50 million listeners and led collaborations with global brands. He also founded PodFest China, the country’s first podcast conference, creating a home for creators and audio professionals to connect and grow. Dedicated to cross-border collaboration, Yang brought NPR’s Podcast Start Up Guide to China and organized workshops with NPR producers to support hundreds of emerging Chinese podcasters.
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This project was supported, in part, by the Virginia Commission for the Arts.
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