softer sounds
In-House Producer
softer sounds is a a feminist podcast studio for artists, writers, coaches, and small business owners. Shows I’ve worked on as a producer include Off the Grid, Rethinking Wellness, Balanced Black Girl, The Black Girl Bravado, Honing In, Threshold Moments, Brave & Well, Scratch That, Bedside, and Juniper.
Quiet Little Horrors
Producer, seasons 5-7
Quiet Little Horrors is a podcast about films of quiet horror.
Lake Song, Make-Believe Association
Dialogue Editor
Signal award-winning and an official selection of Tribeca Audio, Lake Song is an audio drama that imagines a futuristic Chicago where water is everything.
Deep Cover: Camouflage Bias Part 2, Pushkin Industries
Recordist
A bonus epsiode from season 2 of Deep Cover. After Ronnie Carrasquillo exhausts his appeals, he faces the Illinois Prisoner Review Board. But it seems each time Ronnie comes up for parole, he can’t escape the notoriety of his past.
Jess Vann’s Tomfoolery and Shenanigans
Producer, season 2
Jess Vann is a multi-careered baddie: an actor, creative, entrepreneur, speaker, vocalist, all while maintaining a full time job in Youth Development, Social Impact and Education. She brings together some of her closest magical and majestical peeps, to chat the many layers and complexity of life and showing up our most authentic selves and evoking the most gut-busting joy.
CHIRP RADIO
I’ve been working with CHIRP (the Chicago Independent Radio Project) Radio for more than a decade as a volunteer coordinator and on air DJ, and have been involved as a producer and interviewer since 2013.
Most recently, I’ve been serving as the Features and Production Director. I love this position because it allows me to have one foot fully planted in shaping the direction and tone of our podcast, and the other firmly in audio production. It has given me the opportunity to lead and train a team from diverse backgrounds and experience levels, which has been some of the most rewarding work I’ve done. The station has given me many opportunities to grow as a self-taught producer and interviewer and serve in leadership positions that I may not have had otherwise as a queer woman of color.
Through CHIRP, all podcasts I’ve produced have been pitched, researched, booked, interviewed, recorded, transcribed, cut, edited, and scripted by me.
Artist Interview Series Podcast
Shelter In Sound
In March of 2020, the city of Chicago was ordered to shelter in place due to the ongoing global pandemic. CHIRP’s interview program had no choice but to go remote, and the Features department directors (Amanda Mayo, Mick Reed, and myself) at CHIRP decided to focus on the economic and cultural impact of COVID-19 on the music scene in Chicago and launched a limited series, Shelter In Sound.
Show Description:
Like you, the CHIRP Features team is staying home to help flatten the curve! We are shifting our programming to present a new series in our Artist Interview Program. Shelter In Sound features interviews with artists and local music related tastemakers on what they are doing right now during this global pandemic. Tune in to learn how some of your favorite folx are managing and staying creative while hunkered down.
Tuesday Funk
Tuesday Funk is a monthly reading series hosted by Andrew Huff and Eden Robins. I was lucky enough to be asked to read an essay about the history of cemeteries in Chicago and how they tie to my own mourning process in April 2016.