Hi audio world!
It’s me, again. Looking for an audio producer, story editor, etc?!? I have availability in my sked and am looking for projects to finish out 2024.
Lots of experience from my time at radiolab and npr!
Let’s talk!
literally this movie. ive never seen such an accurate adoptee narrative film like this.
it was literally my life and seoul friends lives in a film. even the same bar we spent time at in seoul and the same adoption agency.
🎙️(tap tap is this thing on?)
it's true. today is my last day at
@NPR
as a full-time employee. i was affected by the layoffs. i was cut from
@NPRCodeSwitch
, since Jan I've been on
@planetmoney
team in an acting prod. role.
now: a thread of the stuff at NPR i am proud of 🧵
Going thru old pics and found this one of me and former CA gov. Pete Wilson during the height of his re-election campaign and his push of prop 187.
my face....always been a discerning journalist....
today is Korean-American day ❤️❤️
reminder we all have very different immigration experiences and aren’t monolith. and there is room for all those stories!
Every am, I let my dog out in the yard to go to the bathroom. This am, I couldn’t find her and started yelling her name.
No response. I went out in the street to look for her.
She was in the bushes in the yard. Eating old carne asada she found from neighbors.
#LAdog
my first
@NPRCodeSwitch
episode is out in the world
it's about things i didn't really know about until reporting ...history of Asian Americans organizing in the U.S. has some deep roots!
Pls listen and download!
@alanalevinson
i think we should also talk about how there are so many women of color, indigenous women missing....similar to gabby's age and location...that never even get media coverage and how the law enforcement doesn't even investigate those missing cases.
next up: i'm headed to
@NPRCodeSwitch
.
i'll be staying in LA and working out of
@NPRWest
when we can work in offices.
excited to start this dream job!
UPDATE🚨: i'm over at
@Radiolab
til the new year. helping them out and getting nerdy with narrative audio stories.
so excited to learn from and contribute to this ultra-smart and fun team!
BREAKING:
@tesla
settled for $13M over a life-altering worker injury. This is the company's first personal injury lawsuit that went into trial, involving a workplace accident. That's according to the worker's lawyer. 1/2
BREAKING: LA County officials will close all bars and gym. restaurants will only be take out. Last night the city of LA did this but now all the other cities and unincorporated areas of the county have to do the same.
today is my last day at
@KPCC
. it's weird to have a last day of work in a pandemic. but nothing is normal these days.
i'm thankful for all the smart people i've worked with there and proud of the work we've all done. please be support
@KPCC
and local LA news! 1/
it's taken me decades to be ok in my own skin as a Korean-American-to embrace and be proud of my Korean features- to stop yearning to be white, to heal from asian female fetishization.
today my mom said to wear a big hat and sunglasses to hide my identity when i go on a walk.
“School is so much fun,” Ms. Hwang said.
Her son, Kyong-deok, agreed: “My mother has become a much happier person since she began going to school. Smiles hardly seem to leave her face.”
I’m crying. I love this.
At the end of jan, I started reporting on the rise of reports of anti-Asian hate incidents...then the alt shooting happened.
here’s our episode, pls give it a listen.
big ❤️ and thx to our amazing team for getting it out the door so fast.
📣NEW EPISODE ALERT📣
Since the pandemic began, Asians and Asian Americans have been trying to sound the alarm about a dramatic uptick in reports of racism directed at their communities. Many felt like no one was listening.
Then, last week happened.
this year i froze my eggs. it was a deeply personal and privileged decision. i wish i knew more when i did it...so here's a
@NPRLifeKit
guide on egg freezing that I made with the team!
“Hiring people of color and people from more diverse backgrounds is not enough,” NPR reporter Camila Domonoske, a SAG-AFTRA steward, told Current. “It’s also important that they feel supported at NPR, and that that’s an area where the company has a lot more work to do.”
'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else."
(h/t
@millie
)
wow our
@reveal
investigation on
@Tesla
popped up on john oliver last night at the 14:45ish mark. glad to see our reporting is still relevant after almost 5 years.
thanks for the heads up
@Mollydacious
.
the past decade: my dad died, moved to Korea, looked for birth family, traveled Asia a lot, moved from Korea, went to grad school, jumped into audio journalism.
last 1 1/2 yr: won third coast award, won iré audio award, nominated for a loeb in audio category.
still miss my dad
pretty cool to be on this list with some other great podcasts.
even though 2020 has been a weird year, i'm grateful that I joined the
@NPRCodeSwitch
team and work with awesome coworkers on important stories that need to be told.
BREAKING: Welp it's landed here in LA County. MEASLES. Health officials has confirmed that there are 5 reported cases in residents. One confirmed case is a UCLA student.
the CDC says "In the coming weeks, 2019 confirmed case numbers will likely surpass 2014 levels."
@KPCC
the new season of
@heavyweight
is out so that means I’m sitting in my car, in front of my house...for long stretches of time.
so many driveway moments.
Last year
@willCIR
and I found about this janitor's accident. The lower part of her body was pinned by a Model S in the factory. She can't walk again.
Her story was just one of the many horrific factory accidents that we heard about through our reporting. 2/2
Kevin Núñez, Emma Núñez, and Nathan Núñez of Gabrieleno Tongva San Gabriel band of Mission Indians in DTLA this am for LA’s first indigenous day
@LAist
@kpcc
going through applications for
@NPRCodeSwitch
summer internship.
the youth is inspiring and overachievers.
but also some of the youth need attach the correct cover letter or even just attach one...cuz we really do read them!
wearing my
#wemakenpr
shirt in my (home) office. my furry coworker didn’t get one but that’s okay we both still love working for
@NPR
and making audio stories for you!
The social audio play also means Spotify podcasters like Joe Rogan and Bill Simmons could soon broadcast in real time, rather than on delay, while musicians might one day be able to broadcast their concerts or other recordings live to listeners.
First off, I am so glad I finally got the chance to work with
@RadioMirage
. She pushed me to make good stuff. I got the chance to go out in the field for the first time in the pandemic to do a narrative piece on BLM and Asian Am reckonings.
i'm so excited that
@KPCC
is going to start airing
@TheTakeaway
w/
@tanzinavega
starting on January 22nd at 9 am PST. so excited to hear a WOC host on our airwaves. LA is hungry to hear themselves and their viewpoints/perspectives on the radio and now they can!
i'll admit...i didn't know much about the Tulsa Massacre in Greenwood before we started reporting.
but what does Greenwood look like now and who gets to claim it?
@karenbates
and I went there to find out.
Listen! (it dropped on my 1yr anniv! at CS!)
i've been reporting on immigration and int'l adoption policy for years. and guess what?
it's messy.
in this ep.,you'll meet one adoptee and learn why some adoptees and others (including other groups) don't get citizenship. ⬇️
Minari is just as good as you think it’s gonna be. beautifully shot, amazing cast, and perfectly scored.
there is so much room for every type of immigrant stories.
tomorrow marks the 9th year since my dad passed away. (i’ll be off my phone tomorrow) November is always a hard month for me and many others. be kind to one another.
okay I’m gonna stop doomscrolling now.
just thankful my friend and former colleague
@josie_huang
is home with her two young kids and husband.
and still sad about the fires and that my friend lost his family to the bear fire.
using "asian-american" is a blanketed term, at times.
there are 48 countries and 2,300 different languages spoken on the continent of asia.
plus throw in war histories, imperialism, migration, immigration, 1.5/2nd/3rd gen. et
the asian-am experience is nuanced.
"I hope that white people with Asian family members recognize and internalize the fact that no amount of love, good intentions, assimilation or proximity to whiteness will protect their loved ones from racism." My latest, for
@TIME
:
“I also love that my life is full of Korean women. No one is more intimidating to me than ferocious Korean women, and it is part of my life’s work to try to more fully be one of these women.”
❤️ thank you
@rokwon
for these words❤️
A year later there was the Atlanta shootings and I was able to dig deeper to what that meant for the Asian American community and the context around the violence against the community.
my friend’s mom was a housekeeper at a hotel. Pls always tip. they work really hard, deal with a lot of discrimination and even sexual assault.
and still have to go home after shifts to take care of their families.
My parents didn't teach me to tip hotel housekeepers. (It was their only shortcoming.) But ever since I learned that you should, I've become an evangelist.
Always tip the housekeepers. And tip every day, not just at the end of your stay. (Shifts change. Workers get moved around.)
with increased testing, increase of # of infected individuals.
"we can't beat an epidemic we can't see" -
@davideryu
ryu says la can't rely on the federal government.
Beyond excited to announce the 2018 Third Coast/RHDF Competition WINNERS.
Listen to all of these extraordinary, award-winning podcast & radio stories:
And find out *who* won *what* @ the TC Awards Ceremony, 10/6!
#ThirdCoastRHDFWinners
#OscarsofRadio
this is my favorite veteran. he also happened to be my dad who was extremely proud of his time served in the US navy. i hope wherever he is that there’s a big party for him and his friends.
The day before I got laid off,
@RadioKenny
, along with
@thejessjiang
, and I put out a beautiful mini doc on the psychology of a bank run for Planet Money.
LA County
#COVID19
Update: total 536 cases, 7 deaths
80 percent cases between ages 18-64. this virus can infect people across the board says la health officials
in the spring, i talked with
@Jbrekkie
about Korean food, what its like to lose a parent in our 20s, and how does one define their "koreanness". 🇰🇷😭❤️
here's the q&A + a little radio piece that ran on our radio show to accompany
@katchow
's book.