KalaLea is an audio producer and reporter who produces interviews and longform narrative features for WNYC and the weekly national program, New Yorker Radio Hour. Her work covers a range of topics, from human interest stories and immigration to politics, race relations and arts & culture.
KalaLea has a Master’s degree from CUNY's Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, where she teaches an Audio Reporting course. She's also part of a small collective of experienced story editors: Rough Cut Collective.
Before working as a radio journalist, KalaLea worked as a digital producer and photographer. 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, recording random voice notes or talking to trees.
KalaLea is 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.
The Attack on Black History, with Nikole Hannah-Jones and Jelani Cobb
The Immigration Battle in Washington, and the Real Crisis at the Border
Chuck D on How Hip-Hop Changed the World
Forget Dating Apps—the “Marriage Pact” Goes for the Long Haul
Returning to the Office . . . While Black
Jonathan Blitzer on Caetano Veloso
Notes from America with Kai Wright w/ actor Daniel Kaluuya
Blindspot: Tulsa Burning - a six-part series
American Exiles in East Africa
To Test a Vaccine for COVID-19
A New Documentary Explores How to Make Art While Blind
Inside DJ D-Nice's Club Quarantine
Ten Years After "The New Jim Crow"
Lena Waithe on Police Violence and “Queen & Slim”
Is America Ready to Make Reparations?
Aaron Sorkin Rewrites “To Kill a Mockingbird”
KCRW's Bodies Podcast
Also on Gimlet's The Nod
New York, NY