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Audio Documentary Series
Violence Week
An Apple Podcast Editor’s Pick
Signal & Anthem Award Winner, Webby Nominee
In East Lansing, Michigan, an outburst of violence at the local high school, and the discovery of a gun, leads to a community reckoning over school safety, racial equity, and the role of police in schools.
This four-part documentary series asks big questions about school safety, policing, racial equity, and what it’s like to be a teenager in an era of school shootings.
Violence Week was created, reported, produced, and hosted by me.
︎ Apple Podcasts
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Podcast
Everyday Better with Leah Smart
Signal Award Winner, Bronze for Family & Child-Raising
I worked across all aspects of Everyday Better with Leah Smart, LinkedIn News’ award-winning personal development show.
On the show, I pitched guests and episode topics, edited episodes in Descript and Pro Tools, produced and edited social videos, booked guests like Esther Perel, The Atlantic’s CEO Nicholas Thompson, Anna Sale, Jewel, Suleika Jaouad and more.
︎ Apple Podcasts
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Podcast
Get Hired with Andrew Seaman
Telly Awards, Silver for Instructional Social Video Series
I worked across all aspects of Get Hired with Andrew Seaman, LinkedIn News’ popular jobs and career podcast.
On the show, I pitched guests and episode topics, edited episodes in Descript and Pro Tools, produced and edited social videos, booked guests like Zarna Garg, paralympian Matt Stutzman, Will Packer and more.
︎ Apple Podcasts
︎ Spotify
Podcast
Reimagining Love with Dr. Alexandra Solomon
Reimagining Love is a popular love and relationships podcast hosted by the renowned clinical psychologist and award-winning author Dr. Alexandra Solomon.
As the lead producer of Reimagining Love, I produced every aspect of the weekly show, from booking guests and interview prep to editing and publishing episodes. For Dr. Solomon’s solo episodes, I adapted and translated clinical research into scripts written for the ear.
Past guests include Esther Perel, Dr. Emily Nagoski, Drs. John and Julie Gottman, and Bachelor Nick Viall.
︎ Apple Podcasts
︎ Spotify
Audio Drama
Aisha
Tribeca Festival’s Independent Audio Fiction Award, 2023
Gold in Human & Civil Rights at the Anthem Awards
Webby Award Nominee, Experimental & Innovations Podcast
Aisha is running from The Woman In The Blue Hijab. What will happen if they reach the water's edge?
I was an Associate Producer on this piece and provided writing and editorial support.
︎ Apple Podcasts
︎ Spotify
Radio Feature
The Pequod, or, The Lifeboat
Silver Award for Best Student Documentary at the 2023 New York Festivals Radio Awards
Playwright Michael Gorman has been writing and rewriting a series of plays about the opioid epidemic for over two decades. Producer Emily Reeves tells the story of his epic artistic quest that spans from theaters to job sites to a recovery center in Augusta, Maine.
I reported, produced, hosted, edited, and mixed/mastered this piece.
🔗 SoundCloud
🔗 Salt Story Archive
Podcast Series
I produced and edited a special 12-part podcast series for Vital Voices, the non-profit organization co-founded by Hillary Clinton, Madeleine Albright, and Melanne Verveer. Vital Voices works with women leaders in areas of economic empowerment, women's political participation, and human rights.
For this twelve-part series, I adapted audio recordings from their Global Voices Festival into a podcast format.
︎ Apple Podcasts
︎ Spotify
Vital Voices
I produced and edited a special 12-part podcast series for Vital Voices, the non-profit organization co-founded by Hillary Clinton, Madeleine Albright, and Melanne Verveer. Vital Voices works with women leaders in areas of economic empowerment, women's political participation, and human rights.
For this twelve-part series, I adapted audio recordings from their Global Voices Festival into a podcast format.
︎ Apple Podcasts
︎ Spotify
Podcast Episode
Queens Memory: Our Major Minor Voices
I produced and hosted this episode for the Queens Memory Podcast: Our Major Minor Voices, The Queens Museum's award-winning oral history podcast.
This ten-episode season, ‘Our Major Minor Voices,’ shares stories from Queens' diverse Asian American communities. Each episode of this season featured a different community of Asian descent and was produced in both English and the native language of that community.
In this bonus episode, I interviewed Elias Ravin, the podcast's composer. We discussed the unique challenges of composing for podcasts, his process of respectfully incorporated elements of each culture’s music into the score, and asked the most important question of all: why are podcasts so obsessed with marimbas?
Our conversation is interwoven with Elias’s compositions so we can hear what he’s describing moment-to-moment. I assembled and edited the episode specifically so both people with music theory knowledge and those without could enjoy.
︎ Apple Podcasts
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Audio Story
“The Woodsmen”
The Colby College Woodsmen keep the skills and traditions of lumberjacking alive.
I reported, produced, hosted, edited, and mixed/mastered this piece.
🔗 SoundCloud
Audio Story
“Does Anybody Like Their Job?
In this two-minute Vox Pop, producer Emily Reeves takes to the streets of Portland, Maine to explore our relationship with work.
I reported, produced, hosted, edited, and mixed/mastered this piece.
🔗 SoundCloud
Audio Story
“Footprints”
In "Footprints," join Tour Guide Dugan on a walk through history and his mind.
I reported, produced, edited, and mixed/mastered this piece.
🔗 SoundCloud
Podcast
Across the Pod
I produced, cohosted, and edited Across the Pod, a transatlantic pop culture podcast that ran twice a week during seasons.
I managed all pre- and post-production for the podcast, including creating the show art, theme song (featured on the left), segment stings, and promotional materials. I managed the show’s production schedule, engineered remote recording sessions, edited the episodes, and maintained the show’s RSS and social media.
In two seasons, we organically grew the audience to ~1k listens per episode and created connections with so many amazing listeners! We ended the podcast in 2023 in order to make room for our other professional goals.
︎ Apple Podcasts
︎ Spotify
︎ Instagram
︎ Website
︎ The Ringer Article featuring the podcast
Across the Pod
I produced, cohosted, and edited Across the Pod, a transatlantic pop culture podcast that ran twice a week during seasons.
I managed all pre- and post-production for the podcast, including creating the show art, theme song (featured on the left), segment stings, and promotional materials. I managed the show’s production schedule, engineered remote recording sessions, edited the episodes, and maintained the show’s RSS and social media.
In two seasons, we organically grew the audience to ~1k listens per episode and created connections with so many amazing listeners! We ended the podcast in 2023 in order to make room for our other professional goals.
︎ Apple Podcasts
︎ Spotify
︎ Instagram
︎ Website
︎ The Ringer Article featuring the podcast
Skills
• Pre-production, field reporting, remote interviews,
and post-production for digital media,
documentary storytelling and podcasts
• Live event production and stage management
• Marketing and media growth strategies,
which have resulted in top features in
Apple Podcasts and Spotify
• DAWs: Pro Tools, Adobe Audition,
Reaper, GarageBand, Logic Pro
• Video Editing: Adobe Premiere
• Audio Restoration: iZotope RX 10
• Descript: Transcriptions, storyboarding,
scripting, and editing
• Engineers remote recording sessions on Riverside
• Graphic Design, Content Creation, and Website Building:
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Photoshop (Beginner),
Canva, Squarespace, Carrd, and Cargo
• Project Management: Airtable, Monday.com,
Google Tables, Notion
• Music theory, sound design,
and audio production knowledge
• Voiceover, singing, directing,and script analysis
enhanced by a background in professional theater
• RSS Feed Management:
Megaphone, RedCircle, Spreaker
• Analytics tracking and analysis
• Can start and finish projects
Emily Reeves
audio producer + storyteller
Hi, I'm Emily Reeves. I'm an award-winning producer based in Brooklyn, NY.
Growing up in Michigan, I developed a keen sense of the national conversation and wanted to be a part of it. Now, I’m drawn to stories that explore big ideas with nuance and humor; stories of small communities that reveal something important about our country, whether examining the opioid crisis through a Moby Dick-inspired blues opera, or exploring the national debate around school safety through a controversy at my old high school.
My reporting on that controversy became Violence Week, a four-part investigative series on school policing that I created, produced, and hosted. The series won multiple Signal and Anthem Awards, earned a Webby nomination, an Apple Podcasts Editor’s Pick, and was named a “best podcast to check out” by The Times.
I’m a graduate of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, and have produced shows for LinkedIn, Silver Sound, Next Chapter Podcasts, and others. I love building teams to take on ambitious projects with heart and humor, and I find joy in translating a big vision into achievable goals. My long-term goal is to be a showrunner with a journalistic identity, working on shows at the center of the national conversation.
Currently, I work as a freelance audio producer and as Executive Producer for House of SpeakEasy, where I produce a monthly literary cabaret at Joe’s Pub — collaborating with notable authors to craft compelling live storytelling. Outside of work, I’m a co-organizer of Audio Spice, a collective that hosts free sound-focused events for New York City creatives.
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