podcasts, zines, posters, videos

(and anything you can paint, crochet or bead ;)

made by MG <3

I’m a podcast producer and multimedia creative currently serving as Managing Producer for the Virginia Audio Collective at WTJU 91.1 FM and The Sound Justice Lab. I started listening to podcasts in my childhood bedroom on my iPod Nano and now 18 years later I’ve helped pilot 31 different shows and made over 350 episodes. I love working on a podcast from pitch to promotion, working with my co-workers at WTJU, UVA faculty and students and independent first time producers to think through audience, tone, listenership and impact goals and visual and sonic identity.

I hope you’ll check out my Audio, Visual and Video portfolios and here’s a little bit more about my work:

Advisor & Trainer

I have worked with 19 first-time, independent producers to launch podcasts with The Virginia Audio Collective. Here are a few of my favorite VAC shows made by first time producers!

How I contributed to these podcasts:

Help with show piloting including brainstorming, audience research, feedback on project blueprints, and designing production calendars
Help develop storyboards
Train first time producers to use professional recording equipment
Provide technical training to record and edit in Adobe Audition
Provide editorial and technical feedback
Establish new RSS feeds and publish shows
Create and maintain a large portfolio of customized training resources for new podcasters

Gritty Women is about the history of UVA's coeducation and the experiences of women in the first coeducational class. Hosted and produced by Giovana De Oliveira, as her fourth year thesis.

Produced by Tyler Carter & Erika Howsare, If You See a Deer won a 2024 Virginia Association of Broadcaster’s Award! If You See a Deer is a companion podcast to Erika’s book, The Age of Deer, both the book and the podcast are about human-deer interactions across time and in literature.

Legal Knowledge is a podcast that chronicles the history of the University of Virginia School of Law. Produced by Meggan Cashwell & Rebecca Barry.

I helped with the second season of Speaking in Hues, which was produced and hosted by UVA Women’s Center student interns, and about their experiences as women of color at a Predominantly White Institution.

New Radio Programs

I’m very excited about initiatives that get young people behind the mic. At WTJU, I’ve started two new radio programs:

Cville Tulips Afghan Teen Radio Shows

A few times per year, Afghan middle and high school students involved in Cville Tulips take to the airwaves to share some of their favorite songs with the public. The playlists include music by artists from Afghanistan, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, Tajikistan, and even a little Taylor Swift.

WXTJ Summer High School DJ Program

WTJU has a student station, run and hosted by UVA students. In the summer when the UVA students are away, we invite local high schoolers to apply for a 2-hour time slot once per week during June & July. Last year, the program reached fully capacity, getting about 30 high schoolers on the air and providing live music programming during the summer.

Freelance Work

Under the Cortex by the Association for Psychological Science:

I’ve edited every episode of Under the Cortex since June of 2021. Over 109 episodes!

They send me files recorded remotely and I tape sync them, edit them for content and timing, and do my best to clean up reverb-y offices, barking dogs, passing ambulances and the other sounds of remotely-recorded life.

Freelance Tape Syncs:

CBS & iHeart: Mobituaries with Mo Rocca “Mr. & Mrs. Smith Death of a Marriage Ban”

I recorded Mrs. Peggy Rusk Smith in a private home and in the WTJU studio.

Chanel Les Rendez-vous littéraires rue Cambon “Interview with Jocelyn Nicole Johnson”

I recorded author Jocelyn Nicole Johnson at the WTJU studio.

Media Appearances & Conferences

Podcast Guest:

Continuing Studies, College Radio’s Renaissance: Higher Education’s Audio Evolution Part 1 & Part 2

PodVirgina, S5E69 – Mary Garner McGehee: A New Bold Dominion

Conference Presenter:

Humanities Podcast Network Conference, Best Practices for Narrative Podcasting in Academia

Print Source:

“Two women lead a free tour of Charlottesville’s Confederate monuments each month. A new website lets everyone listen.” Washington Post

Conference Attendee:

Resonate Podcast Festival (2024, 2023, 2022), Harvard Radcliffe Seminar “Sound Justice” (2023), National Federation of Community Broadcasters (2023), Virginia Association of Broadcasters (2022)