Alumni Forum
Alums from the Nonfiction Writing Program offer insights on careers in nonfiction writing, editing, publishing, and teaching.
Alumni Forum
Alums from the Nonfiction Writing Program offer insights on careers in nonfiction writing, editing, publishing, and teaching.
Spring 2023
Time: April 19th, 6 pm
Location: Friedman Hall, Room 102
Panelists
Ana González
Ana González is an award-winning podcast producer and host living in Rhode Island. Currently, she's working on a new, unreleased podcast series with Yo-Yo Ma. She's also produced for WNYC's Radiolab and the Radiolab for Kids spinoff, Terrestrials. Ana was the founding producer and host of Mosaic, a podcast on immigrant experiences from The Public’s Radio. Ana graduated from Brown University in 2015 with a degree in jazz studies and loves stories, people, community, the ocean, and dogs very much.
Anna Martin
Anna Martin is the host of the Modern Love podcast at the New York Times. She graduated from Brown in 2016, and spent most of her time on campus telling stories with the Storytellers club. She’s produced live shows and podcasts at places like Pop-Up Magazine, The Moth, Slate, and This American Life. She currently lives in Brooklyn.
Liza Yaeger
Liza Yeager is an independent audio producer, sound designer, and editor. She's made longform documentary radio for Invisibilia, Planet Money, and New York Magazine's Cover Story, among many other outlets. She was the editor of Jacobin Magazine's Antibody series and is currently at work on The Dig Presents, a new narrative series about politics and feelings. Recently, she's also been making stories about grief, mustangs, and climate change romance. Liza graduated from Brown in 2017.
Now Here This
Now Here This (NHT) is a student-run workshop at Brown for re-imagining audio storytelling. Each semester, we pitch, produce, and publish a range of experimental audio. At the end of each semester, we produce an issue based on student work curated around a certain theme.