Audio

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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 ThompsonAnna Sale, Jewel, Suleika Jaouad and more.

︎ Apple Podcasts
︎ Spotify






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
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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
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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

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
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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
︎ Spotify








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









I love sound-rich, expressive stories—ones that challenge our assumptions and explore the complexities of being alive.







Skills


Pre-production, field reporting, remote interviews,
and post-production for digital media,
documentary storytelling and podcasts

• 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, podcaster and storyteller based in Brooklyn, NY.



I’m drawn to stories that explore big ideas with nuance and humor. Above all, I’m passionate about impact-driven audio; I love how the medium can humanize the news, showing how deeply our everyday lives connect to the larger forces around us.

My four-part audio documentary series Violence Week aimed to do just that through its examination of school policing. The series was a Signal and Anthem Award-winner, a Webby Nominee, an Apple Podcast 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 Stories, where I created a documentary about a Moby-Dick-inspired blues opera about heroin addiction. The piece won a Silver Award, the highest for the category, for Best Student Documentary at the New York Festivals Radio Awards. I've also worked on projects that have won Tribeca, Signal, and Anthem Awards.


I currently work as the Executive Producer for House of SpeakEasy, where I produce a monthly literary cabaret at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater, collaborating with notable authors to craft compelling live storytelling.

Outside of work, I am a coorganizer of Audio Spice, a collective hosting free sound-focused events for New York City creatives.




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