AUDIO
Here are some examples of my audio work, featuring stories hosted, produced, reported, scripted, sound-designed and edited by me. These examples span public media, podcasting and digital.
Guests sleep in old buses. The toilets compost. They raise their own chickens. Welcome to the world of eco villages, which have cropped up across Arizona. (Arizona PBS)
Mariachi Juvenil de Mi Tierra recently won Alice Cooper's Proof is in the Pudding Battle of the Bands. The group was created to teach young musicians traditional mariachi music. (Arizona PBS)
After experiencing life-threatening complications, those who survive labor and delivery often feel abandoned by the American medical system. I produced and edited these audio vignettes, which feature families who have been impacted. (Capital B News)
Aba Anderson’s post-delivery complications have had a lingering impact on her husband, Justin, who says he still has nightmares in which his wife doesn’t survive giving birth.
Krystal Reese says she didn’t start dealing with her own trauma, which included postpartum depression and anxiety, until she decided to become a doula.
Charisse Johnson says an epidural error prior to her baby’s birth left her paralyzed from the waist up and struggling to breathe.
Tyhesha Daniels says she’s still triggered from the experiences she went through during her children’s birth. “I’m a work in progress,” she says today.
Life in their new country requires Black Americans to wear less “armor,” but there is no escape to anti-Blackness. (Capital B News)
Lewis Miles, who has traced the lineage of Black American migration to Mexico, is not surprised by the recent uptick.
Apryl and Rondel Yarbrough are seen in northern Mexico at an establishment settled by Negros Mascogos, a group of Black Seminoles who migrated to Mexico to escape the threat of slavery in the United States. The Yarbroughs no longer live in Mexico.