KalaLea - Producer, Reporter & Story Editor

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KalaLea is an audio journalist and storyteller who has produced interviews and narrative features for Slate Studios, WNYC, KCRW’s Bodies Podcast, Latino USA, Planet Money, the New Yorker Radio Hour and currently Pushkin.

KalaLea has a Master’s degree from CUNY’s Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, where she has taught a course in Audio Reporting. She’s also a Tow Knight fellow.

Her reporting work covers a range of topics, from criminal justice and immigration to arts & culture, Black history, social justice and more.

Before working as a radio journalist, KalaLea worked in book publishing and advertising as a digital producer and photographer. Before that she was the co-owner of a little cafe in Brooklyn, NY as well as a yoga teacher. 

She's also presented at a number of higher learning institutions including, Columbia University, New York University and Trinity College; plus at conferences such as Race Forward and RESONATE podcast festival. 

In 2024, KalaLea's three-minute pet piece was featured at the TriBeCa Film Festival. She is now a proud Audio Fluxer. (I'm a fan of humans and ginormous animals though).

Blindspot: Tulsa Burning - a six-part series about the Tulsa Massare of 1921

American Exiles in East Africa (a story of two Black Panthers living in exile)

Part One / Part Two

The Battle Over Portland 

To Test a Vaccine for COVID-19

Life After Prison (what's it like leaving prison after two decades)

A New Documentary Explores How to Make Art While Blind

Forget Dating Apps—the “Marriage Pact” Goes for the Long Haul

Returning to the Office . . . While Black