Audio work that moved the needle.
Four shows produced by my company.
I founded Kizaya Studios to produce Un Poco de Contexto. The clients that followed confirmed there was a real appetite for well-reported, carefully crafted audio in Spanish. Click through to see the complete episode index for each show.
Un Poco de Contexto
A Spotify Original news podcast about current affairs in Mexico. The 32-episode weekly series was produced in partnership between my company Kizaya Studios and La Puerta Estudios for Spotify. First aired in May 2021, it consistently rated #1 Top News Podcast in Mexico through the end of its first season in November 2021.
View all episodes →Pasado/Presente: Historia en Podcast
A podcast where journalists sit down with historians to understand the past that shapes our present. Produced by my company Kizaya Studios for the Center for Historical Studies at El Colegio de México.
View all episodes →BirdNote en Español
BirdNote is a daily podcast inspiring listeners to care about the natural world through vivid and wondrous storytelling. Since November 2022, Kizaya has produced BirdNote en Español, adapting episodes from their original English versions and also producing original content for the show. Over 9 million listeners worldwide.
View all episodes →DiDi Podcast
Two shows produced weekly by Kizaya for DiDi, the global ride-hailing company: Ruta DiDi (narrative episodes) and Cabina DiDi (chatcast with expert guests). Ran from November 2022 to December 2024.
View all episodes →Senior producer and reporter credits before Kizaya.
As Senior Producer and Manager of the Spanish Language Division at Gilded Audio in New York City, I was lead producer on So You Want To Work Abroad, a 6-episode series about taking your career global, produced for The New York Times' T-Brand Studio and sponsored by Cole Haan.
Other podcasts I produced during this period: the Webby Award-winning Abuse of Power, an Audible Original series about wrongful incarceration in the U.S.; Innovation Uncovered, a series about how science, technology and creativity are shaping reality, produced for The New York Times' T-Brand Studio and sponsored by Invesco; and Get Money, an Acast Original limited series on personal finance for Millennials.
I co-founded the production company Team Santo and secured a commission from ESPN's 30 for 30 for Don't Drop the Mask, a documentary podcast pilot on Mexican lucha libre. I managed the 7-month production and led a 5-person production, research and sound team. 30 for 30 Podcasts →
In 2016 I produced the first pilots and episodes of Sparks, FiveThirtyEight's science podcast. Check out the first two episodes:
Before Sparks I assisted the podcast team on the special mini-series Kitchen Table Politics and the show What's The Point.
I produced the November 2016 episode of the Physics World podcast, Doing Physics By Ear, a conversation with particle physicist Aqil Sajjad. Sajjad was finishing his postdoc at Harvard, where he does particle physics research. But unlike most particle physicists, he does physics by ear: he lost his sight to retina detachments in both eyes as a teenager growing up in Islamabad. In the episode, Sajjad talks about his experiences in physics and how he accesses math and science concepts using speech-to-text software.
I joined BBC's Science Radio Unit during my Master's program in London in the summer of 2014, where I worked with the production teams of Inside Science and Science in Action.
Antarctic Invaders; Patents; Longitude Challenges for Water and Antibiotics
19 Jun 2014
Segment: Longitude Prize: Antibiotics. Dame Sally Davies explains why, in an era of growing antibiotic resistance, it's important to have a cheap, easy-to-use test to identify bacteria. Muna Anjum from the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency is working on identifying those resistance genes in certain bacteria. Paul Freemont's team at Imperial College is using synthetic biology to build a device that can detect specific bacteria, precisely the sort of work that might answer the Longitude Prize's challenge.
Production and reporting on Science in Action during my BBC Science Radio Unit placement.
26 May 2014
- What next for Indian Science? India is one of the world's fastest growing economies, but can the country match this expansion with a sophisticated science programme.
- Cheaper Solar Cells. Solar panels have a spring in their step as professor Stuart Wenham utilises lasers to improve panel efficiency.
15 May 2014
- Kingdom Tower. Plans for the world's new tallest building are underway. The Kingdom Tower is the latest Saudi Arabian wonder; on its completion one may look out across the city of Jeddah from a kilometre up.
Monday Matter
Innocent or guilty? Trends on DNA profiling (March 2014). Can an innocent person be convicted of a crime they didn't commit with new advances in DNA detection technologies? Is finding the suspect's DNA in a crime scene the end of a criminal investigation? New software allows profiling DNA even from incomplete strains and provides police with the exact odds of it matching a suspect's. But to what extent does this help build strong cases in court? I visited legal cases past and present to report on the scientific and legal aspects of the latest in DNA profiling in criminal cases.
- Monday 24 March 2014 (17:00–18:00)
- Monday 10 March 2014 (17:00–18:00)
- Monday 24 February 2014 (17:00–18:00)
- Monday 10 February 2014 (17:00–18:00)
- Monday 27 January 2014 (17:00–18:00)