KalaLea - Producer, Reporter & Story Editor

KalaLea is an audio producer and reporter who has produced interviews and narrative features for Slate Studios, WNYC, KCRW’s Bodies Podcast, Latino USA, Planet Money and the New Yorker Radio Hour...and 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, race relations 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.

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

KalaLea was 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 Tulsa Burning team was awarded a duPont Columbia Journalism Award, two Webbys for Best Series and Best Writing, as well as a NAACP Image Award for Outstanding News + Information Podcast. They were also nominated for a Peabody Award.