Audio Work

5+ years of experience in podcast production. The intersection of multiculturality and gender is central to my work. Check out my SoundCloud for podcasts produced independently and for clients.

Who Holds up Half the Sky? (2022)

“Who Holds up Half the Sky” is an investigative podcast discussing the possibilities of advancing feminist activism in China under censorship and lack of free speech. Influential activist figures appear in China’s history from the Qing dynasty to the Maoist era with its famous quote: “Women Hold up Half the Sky”. But Chinese women have undergone much pressure from foot binding and arranged marriages to unequal pay and domestic violence.

You can listen to the full-length interviews here and on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Dive into a deep reading of the research conducted for this podcast here.

Independently produced: research, scripting, conducting interviews, editing, sound design

Mixing by Jullian Androkae; Cover art by Meaghan Paine

Listen to the conversation held for the podcast launch below. With special guest, author & professor Ann Feldman.

Beauty In Enormous Bleakness (2022)

“Beauty In Enormous Bleakness” explores architecture’s relationship to issues of immigration, exclusion, and cultural identity in 20th-century America through a multi-layered investigation of the lives of Japanese-American designers/architects who survived WWII internment, and went on to make vital contributions to the post-war architecture and design landscape of the United States.

Produced for Washington University in St. Louis: research, scripting, editing, mixing, sound design

Produced with Heidi Kolk, Lynnette Widder, and Kelley Murphy.

Listen to it here.

„Colectiv” (2021)

The journalistic piece investigates the connection between the Romanian people and the country’s leading power institutions. The COVID pandemic shed light on many insecurities of countries around the world. Therefore, the scandals in the public medical system of Romania re-opened a chapter of our history: Colectiv. Listen for an insightful, critical, and personal look at how power overcomes responsibility.

Independently produced: research, scripting, conducting interviews, editing, sound design

„Lethargic Joy” – COVID 19 Diaries/ Short Experimental Piece (2020)

This experimental audio piece is a journey into my experience of the past month of living with the „new normal” of the pandemic as part of the Romanian diaspora. It portrays the lethargy of repetition, the lack of clarity of these times, as well as the joy of reconnecting with family. The sounds used are recordings of phone conversations with my family and the ever-present white noise of my current living space.

Independently produced: editing, mixing, sound design

„Whose Choice is My Choice?” (2019)

This audio piece discusses the topic of abortion from a cultural, social, and political perspective. It introduces the situation of abortion in Communist and post-Communism Romania, as well as the situation of abortion in 21st century USA. By also including a religious standpoint, this piece tries to capture a meaningful understanding of opposing perspectives on the topic of abortion. 

Independently produced: research, scripting, conducting interviews, editing, mixing, sound design