Work

Reporting

Here’s a few sam­ples of my report­ing in audio 🎧, dig­i­tal 💻, and print 📖

Oranges on a tree

💻 Is it safe to eat my back­yard fruit in LA?, LA Pub­lic Press, 2025

🎧 Ger­mans prep for pot legal­iza­tion, NPR, 2023

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🎧 Lega­cies of the Chi­cano Mora­to­ri­um, It’s Been a Minute, NPR, 2020

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🎧 The Latin Explo­sion of 1999, It’s Been a Minute, NPR, 2021

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🎧 You Asked for Real Rais­es, Free Ship­ping, and a Spe­cial Deliv­ery, Plan­et Mon­ey, NPR, 2021

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Jojo Rabbit

🎧 Mayes Rubeo, “Jojo Rab­bit” Cos­tume Design­er, The Frame, KPCC/LAist, 2020

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Dorian Wood performs XAVELA LUX AETERNA

🎧 Dori­an Wood Remem­bers Chavela Var­gas, The Frame, KPCC, 2019

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🎧 Tues­day Night Cafe, The Frame, KPCC, 2019

🎧 Home­bod­ies, KCR­W’s 24-Hour Radio Race, 2019

📖 We Were Angry and Want­ed an Out­let: Hijas de la Paz, make/shift, 2017

Interviews

These are my on-air and text-based inter­views and round­ta­bles.

🎧 A Guide­book to Smell, It’s Been a Minute, NPR, 2022

🎧 The Game Has Changed for D&D and “A League of Their Own,” It’s Been a Minute, NPR, 2022

📖 Love on the Front Lines: A Round­table with Co-Edi­tors of Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Moth­er­ing, make/shift, 2016

📖 Deer, Unleashed: An Inter­view with Bam­by Sal­cedo, make/shift, 2015

📖 Girls Step­ping into Their Pow­er: An Inter­view with the Co-Founder of Rad­i­cal Mon­archs, make/shift, 2015

Selected Podcast Producing

My work on these episodes includ­ed research, writ­ing, cut­ting tape, sound design, and scoring.

🎧 How do our brains per­ceive our future selves? One psy­chol­o­gist want­ed to know, TED Radio Hour, NPR, 2023

🎧 How to turn every­day moves (even typ­ing!) into dance, TED Radio Hour, NPR, 2023

🎧 How the first LGBTQ+ video game was giv­en a sec­ond life, TED Radio Hour, NPR, 2023

🎧 Build­ing a library of unread man­u­scripts, locked away until 2114, TED Radio Hour, NPR, 2022

🎧 Pro­duc­er Glo­ria Calderón Kel­lett on mak­ing and sus­tain­ing Lat­inx TV, It’s Been a Minute, NPR, 2022

🎧 Michaela Coel Is A ‘Mis­fit.’ She Wants To Help Oth­er Mis­fits, Too, It’s Been a Minute, NPR, 2021

The rest of my NPR work can be found here.

Reviews

💻 Review of Hood Criatu­ra, by fei her­nan­dez, NPR, 2020

💻 Review of An Incom­plete List of Names, by Michael Tor­res, NPR, 2020

📖 Review of Bodymap and Dirty Riv­er, by Leah Lak­sh­mi Piepz­na-Sama­ras­in­ha, make/shift, 2016

📖 Review of Com­pañeras: Zap­atista Wom­en’s Sto­ries, by Hilary Klein, make/shift, 2015

Essays

📖 How to Grow Old, Huizache, 2016

Theater

🎭 Las Ami­gas (short play), Chi­canas, Cholas, y Chisme Fes­ti­val, Los Ange­les, 2014