Audio work that moved the needle.

I founded Kizaya Studios to work closely with our clients to develop unique, well-reported, and powerfully told stories meant to be listened to. We are a team of producers, journalists, audio engineers, and musicians who work together to create original content in English and Spanish for news media and brands. We have over 10 years' experience in original reporting, storytelling, and native advertising.

In 2021 I hosted and managed production of Un Poco de Contexto, a weekly in-depth news podcast in Spanish about current affairs in Mexico.

The 32-episode weekly series was produced by my company, Kizaya, and La Puerta Estudios for Spotify. First aired in May, it consistently rated #1 Top News Podcast in Mexico up until the end of its first season in November 2021.

While I was Senior Producer and Manager of Spanish Language Division at Gilded Audio in New York City in 2020, I was the lead producer for So You Want To Work Abroad, a 6-episode podcast series about taking your career global made for The New York Times's T-Brand Studio, sponsored by Cole Haan.

Other podcasts I helped produce during this period were the Webby Award-winning podcast 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, made for The New York Times's T-Brand Studio and sponsored by Invesco; and Get Money, an Acast Original podcast limited series about personal finances for Millennials.

In 2018–2019 along with my colleague Asa Merritt, I managed production for ESPN's 30 for 30 Podcasts' pilot episode on Mexican Lucha Libre, Don't Drop the Mask. Check out 30 for 30's podcasts here.

In 2016, I produced the first pilots and episodes of Sparks, FiveThirtyEight's science podcast. Check out the first two episodes here:

• Galileo's Middle Finger (19 Aug 2016)
• The Goldwater Rule (23 Sept 2016)

Before Sparks I also assisted the podcast team in the production of the special mini series Kitchen Table Politics and the show What's The Point.

• Doing Physics By Ear (24 Nov 2016)

Aqil Sajjad recently finished his postdoc at Harvard University in the US, where he does particle physics research. But unlike most particle physicists, he does physics by ear. That's because Sajjad – who will be celebrating his 37th birthday this month – lost his sight to retina detachments in both eyes when he was a teenager growing up in Islamabad. In the November episode of the Physics World podcast Sajjad talks to journalist Lucina Melesio about his experiences in physics. You will hear how Sajjad accesses maths and science concepts using speech-to-text software.

I joined BBC's Science Radio Unit while doing my Master's program in London during the summer of 2014, where I worked with the production teams of Inside Science and Science in Action.