KalaLea - Host, Producer & Radio Reporter

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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.