Neena Pathak is a writer, editor, and audio producer whose work has been in podcasts like Invisibilia (NPR), This American Life, Another Round (BuzzFeed), The Daily and Still Processing (The New York Times). Her work has been honored by the Pulitzer Prize Board, Asian American Journalists Association, and Third Coast International Audio Festival.  She’s been itinerant for about a year now, and has been thinking a lot about community, practice, and death.

“After about a decade of working in audio journalism and documentary, I’m curious about other experimental and playful ways of telling stories in sound.  I’ve been thinking a lot about a question posed by an audio comrade, Jess Shane, who asked, “How do we make media that helps you be in, rather than escape from?”  To start, I want to interview community members while they engage in acts of drudgery.  At some point in the residency, I’d love to teach an audio storytelling seminar too. “