About KalaLea
KalaLea is an audio producer and reporter who currently produces interviews and narrative features for WNYC and the New Yorker Radio Hour.
She received her 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 this 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.
SELECT FEATURES AND INTERVIEWS
New Yorker Radio Hour
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
NPR's Interfaith Voices