KalaLea is an audio producer and reporter who currently produces interviews and narrative features for WNYC and the New Yorker Radio Hour.
She has a Master’s degree from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism with a specialization in multimedia storytelling. In 2017, KalaLea was a recipient of the Tow-Knight Entrepreneurial Journalism fellowship.
Before working as a radio journalist, KalaLea worked as a digital producer and before that she was the owner of a little cafe in Brooklyn, NY. When she's not asking questions, she's watching documentary films, traveling, eating or hugging trees.
A New Documentary Explores How to Make Art While Blind
To Test a Vaccine for COVID-19
Inside DJ D-Nice's Club Quarantine
Ten Years After "The New Jim Crow"
Lena Waithe on Police Violence and “Queen & Slim”
Stephen Cheng’s Chinese-Jamaican Music
Is America Ready to Make Reparations?
American Exiles in East Africa
Aaron Sorkin Rewrites “To Kill a Mockingbird”
KCRW's Bodies Podcast
Also on Gimlet's The Nod
New York, NY