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Finding Home, Con DACA
“Finding Home, con DACA” the 3-part mini series I produced for How To LA, won an ONA Award!
HTLA’s host, a DACA recipient, gets permission to visit Mexico for the first time in 30 years... But his ideas of “home” change along the way.
HOW TO LA
LA is a pretty unique place. HTLA is 10 minutes of daily discovery to help you navigate it all. I produce the show with some cool cats at LAist Studios. Here’s a few favorites so far:
Linda Ronstadt: Feels Like Home
In her new historical, musical, and edible memoir, Linda tells the story of five generations of her Mexican American / German family... Before her stardom. “This is little Linda, Mexican Linda, cowgirl Linda, desert Linda.”
This story was produced For The Kitchen Sisters.
THE ACCIDENTAL ARCHIVIST
Experimental theater is iterative. Improvisation, dense layering of ideas and texts, sound and image, performances ever-changing. So, how do you chronicle it for the ages?
This story was produced For The Kitchen Sisters.
AirTalk, 89.3 kpcc
AirTalk is a daily, two-hour, live news show that covers international stories through a Los Angeles lens. Here are some favorite segments I produced.
series with neon hum:
I helped produce several contract shows with Neon Hum for Dateline NBC, Discovery+ and the MLB. The excerpt below is from an episode I produced for Dateline’s true-crime show, “Killer Role.”
The Mushroom Queen of Zimbabwe
As a young orphan in Zimbabwe, Chido Govera grew mushrooms to avoid being sold into marriage. By 15, she was traveling the world teaching her methods to other young women and girls — using food as a weapon for change.
This story was produced for The Kitchen Sisters.
The amish pandemic sewing frolic
Sugarcreek, Ohio. When nearby hospitals needed hundreds of thousands of masks for their employees and visitors, they found an unexpected powerhouse in the Amish community.
This story was produced for The Kitchen Sisters.
Landshark Office Park
The Ellis Act lets California landlords evict rent-controlled tenants. Supporters call it an important tool for repurposing land, but opponents fear "repurposing" is code for cheating rent control.
This story was produced in collaboration with PRX.
Sanitize me, Capitan!
The entire country seems to be running out of hand sanitizer. I set out on a quest with Isaiah Murtaugh and Traci Lee to find out just how hard it would be to get sanitized.
This story was a special broadcast for USC’s Annenberg Radio News.
Reforesting Ecuador
Maquipucuna aims to steer Andean communities away from logging— but they face an inactive government and threats from the local mafia.
This story was broadcast on KPFA.
USC’s Japanese American prisoners
In 1942, there were over a hundred Japanese American students at USC. A year later, in the first semester after Pearl Harbor, there were zero.
This story aired on USC’s Annenberg Radio News.
The disappearance of banjo man
Jordan Bush is a street performer who plays the banjo at the Santa Monica Farmers market. This episode details my attachment to his music, and follows Jordan as an unlikely rivalry forces his disappearance.
