Audio
Isla Public Media (KPRG)
National Public Radio (NPR)
Reported Pieces
Stories I've pitched, reported, and produced for the NPR newsmagazines.
A Look Into How The Pandemic Will Change Lunar New Year Celebrations
Morning Edition & Up First
As a producer, I pitch story ideas to help build and shape the show, book guests regularly, produce interviews, and edit/cut tape for broadcast.
Culture Desk
As Associate producer, I extensively produced sound-rich radio features, TV & film reviews, and news stories for the Culture Desk.
Wyoming Public Media
Reported Pieces & Interviews Produced
In addition to hosting Morning Edition for the station, I pitched, reported, and produced weekly radio news features, and interviews to broadcast on our award-winning weekly current affairs program, Open Spaces.
WAMU 88.5 FM
1A
As 1A's associate producer, I was responsible for research, pre-interviews, production, finalizing guest bookings and pitching story ideas for the show.
Gordon Sondland Sounds Off
Democratic Debate: Atlanta Edition
Feet in 2 Worlds
'A Better Life?' Podcast
Feet in 2 Worlds is a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to telling the stories of today's immigrants. I pitched, reported, and produced a long-form narrative podcast episode for the second season of 'A Better Life?' show about how COVID-19 has impacted the idea of the 'American Dream'.
Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA)
VOICES
I served as the Audio team mentor and editor for AAJA's VOICES program. In this role, I worked, mentored, and edited two early-career reporters respectively in 2021 and 2022 to report and produce their first radio news feature.
Non-white English teachers in Asia face discrimination
“I’ve met like people who are just like ‘I was backpacking through Southeast Asia and I fell in love with Thailand and I just wanted to stay, so I just started teaching English,” said Tessa Charupatanapongse, who was born in Thailand and attended American school there. After finishing her Bachelor’s in the U.S., she returned to Thailand thinking that she could te
The power of Asian American art to heal and bridge generational gaps
Snehal Desai is the artistic director of the first Asian American theater company in the United States, the East West Players. The company was founded in 1965 and is in Little Tokyo at a former church in Los Angeles. East West Players is at the core of the Asian American Pacific Islander arts community. While dismantling the stereotypes that are thrust upon AAPI actors, the group’s mission is to also share Asian American stories with the p
Asian-Americans demand: ‘Call me by my name'
Divy Mente is Indian and an incoming freshman at Cal State University, Northridge, whose real name is Divyasri. Her parents gave her the nickname ‘Divy’ when she was born. Divy gets anxiety when introducing herself because every school year her teachers stumble over her name. But she still feels her nickname Divy is conforming to make other people’s lives easier.