KalaLea - Host, Producer & Radio Reporter

KalaLea is an audio producer and reporter who--for nearly five years--has been producing interviews and narrative features for WNYC and the New Yorker Radio Hour. 


She's also the host of Season 2 of Blindspot: Tulsa Burning, a collaboration with the History Channel, WNYC Studios , KOSU and Focus Black Oklahoma. In 2022, KalaLea and the entire team was awarded a duPont Columbia Journalism Award and a NAACP Image Award.


KalaLea has a Master’s degree from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism with a specialization in multimedia storytelling. 


Before working as a radio journalist, KalaLea worked as a digital producer and before that she was the co-owner of a little cafe in Brooklyn, NY.  When she's not asking questions, she's watching documentary films, traveling, eating or admiring trees.

SELECT FEATURES & INTERVIEWS

Black Thought Takes the Stage


Wole Soyinka on His New Satire of Corruption and Fundamentalism


Blindspot: Tulsa Burning - a six-part series


United States of Anxiety w/ Daniel Kaluuya


The Battle Over Portland


The Rikers Debate Project


A New Documentary Explores How to Make Art While Blind


To Test a Vaccine for COVID-19


Inside DJ D-Nice's Club Quarantine


Exploitation in the Amazon


Life After Prison


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

Part One / Part Two


Aaron Sorkin Rewrites “To Kill a Mockingbird”


KCRW's Bodies Podcast

Bleeding 

Also on Gimlet's The Nod 


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With peace & gratitude - KalaLea

New York, NY

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