Experience & Awards
Here's an account of where I have worked, talks and classes I've taught, awards I have won, etc., etc., etc.Full-Time Experience
Founder/Director, Written In Air LLC, remote role
July 2021–Present
Editor, Audio Innovations Studio, Colorado Public Radio, remote role
July 2020–Sept. 2021
Senior Editor, Knowable, remote role [laid off at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic]
Aug. 2019–Apr. 2020
Editor, Audio Team, The Washington Post, Washington DC
Aug. 2018–Aug. 2019
Senior Producer, Third Coast International Audio Festival, Chicago, IL
Jan. 2016–July 2018
Producer, Third Coast International Audio Festival, Chicago, IL
Feb. 2014–Dec. 2015
Contract and Freelance Experience
Contract Producer, Common Sense Media, San Francisco, CA [full-time, remote]
Apr. 2020 –July 2020
Freelance Producer / Sound Designer / Composer / Story Editor / Podcast Consult
Dec. 2012–July 2018
Producer, Kaleidoscope, Chicago, IL
Aug. 2017–Mar. 2018
Contract Audio Producer, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
May–Sept. 2016
Freelance Production & Broadcast Assistant, Unique the Production Company, London, UK
June–Oct. 2013
Honours & Awards
Sacred Scandal from Written in Air, Exile Content Studios and iHeartMedia (Senior Producer/Showrunner)
- Gold Award (Podcast Series), dotComm Awards (2022)
Systemic from Colorado Public Radio (Series Editor)
- Best Podcast (Large Market Radio), RTDNA Edward R. Murrow Awards [Region 3] (2022)
- Top of the Rockies, Best Podcast (Extra-Large Newsroom), Colorado Society for Professional Journalists Awards (2022)
Music Blocks from Colorado Public Radio (Series Creation and Development)
- Best Podcast for Kids (winner), The Ambies — Awards for Excellence in Audio (2022)
‘The Long Lonely Lake’ from Back from Broken for Colorado Public Radio (Story Editor)
- Silver Award for Personal Lives Podcast, New York Festivals Radio Awards (2021)
- Bronze Award for Health/Medical Documentary, New York Festivals Radio Awards (2021)
- Carolyn C. Mattingly Award for Mental Health Reporting, National Press Foundation (2020)
- Best Mini-Documentary or Series, Colorado Broadcasters Association Awards of Excellence (2020)
Back from Broken (Season 2) from Colorado Public Radio (Series Editor)
- Best Interview Podcast (nominee), The Ambies — Awards for Excellence in Audio (2021)
Parent Trapped from Common Sense Networks (Lead Producer & Sound Designer)
- Best Kids & Family Podcast (nominee), The Webby Awards (2021)
‘Cannabis on the Menu’ from On Something for Colorado Public Radio (Series Editor)
- Best Radio Podcast, Colorado Broadcasters Association Awards of Excellence (2020)
‘Moonrise’ from The Washington Post (Series Editor/Producer)
- Bronze Award for Narrative/Documentary Podcast, New York Festivals Radio Awards (2020)
- Best Listens of 2019, Apple Podcasts (2019)
‘The Sitter Dispatch’ (co-produced with Maya Goldberg-Safir)
- Runner-up (Prose), The Missouri Review Miller Audio Prize (2016)
- Shortlisted, The Hearsay Prize (2015)
Special Recommendation, International Feature Conference (2015)
- Awarded to Dennis Funk by the Åke Blomström Awards panel recognising new, standout audio documentary producers
Conferences, Presentations, Performances, Teaching
- Presenter, MIRP (Meeting of Independent Radio Producers) — Leuven, Belgium (2023)
- Instructor, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts and Media (Jan. 2020–2021)
- Live Podcast Installation, “Adler After Dark” — Moonrise ‘screened’ at this live event in Chicago’s Adler Planetarium (2019)
- Performer, The Fest — live podcast festival in Chicago, IL (2017)
- Performer, Københavns Radiobiograf Festival — Copenhagen, Denmark (2017)
- Presenter, MIRP (Meeting of Independent Radio Producers) — Vallikilde, Denmark (2017)
- Performer, Re:sound LIVE!, Chicago, IL (2016)
- Presenter, HearSay International Audio Arts Festival — Kilfinane, Ireland (2014)
- Guest Lecturer, University of Illinois at Chicago — Audio Aesthetics course (2014–2016)
• Led undergraduate students in one class per semester on sound design for audio documentary
Volunteering & Stewardship
- Mentor, The Podcast Academy (Jan.–May 2023)
• Mentoring a group of podcast producers and creators on writing, editing and business marketing
- Career Mentor (July 2021–Present)
• Privately mentoring a number of new producers and audiomakers on a regular basis
- Constellations Programming Committee (Jan. 2020–July 2020)
• Working with the programming committee members to curate, develop and edit works for this audio arts podcast
- Mentor, After School Matters (Chicago, IL, Summer 2018)
• Mentoring high school students in their audio storytelling class
Education
Goldsmiths, University of London — MA Radio with Distinction (2013)
University of Pittsburgh — BA English: Creative Nonfiction, Medieval Studies Certificate, Minor: Spanish (2009)