Meet your collaborators.
Jazmine (JT) Green is our founder and Executive Producer.
Jazmine (JT) Green (she/they) is an audio documentarian by trade and artist by practice. She is the founder of Molten Heart, a creative and commercial studio focused on the texture of sound. She writes and produces electronic music as CMD+JAZMINE.
Chad Kouri is our Music Supervisor and Composer.
Chad (he/him) is a Chicago-based working artist, musician, and cultural worker known for his intuitive, vibrant compositions that utilize the healing powers of improvisation, color, and abstraction. His multidisciplinary studio practice mirrors his mixed-race identity, focusing broadly on visual Art, music, and design while considering theories based on minimalism, color theory, semiotics, radical joy, and community care. Utilizing a wide range of skillsets and strategies, Kouri reminds us to stay curious and make time for play, rest, and introspection, enabling us more bandwidth for mutual aid and collective community care. Find some of his sound projects through your favorite music streaming platform.
Headshot by David Michaels.
Adriene Lilly is our Technical Director.
In no particular order Adriene (she/her) is a sound designer, audio engineer, artist and educator.
Michelle Macklem is our Supervising Sound Editor.
Michelle (she/her) is a sound designer, producer and artist. Using audio as an interlocutor, her work is concerned with the politics of land, voice and atmosphere. Her work uses sound – stars and stone, hands and wings, tables and trees – as a connective tissue between our bodies and the environment. She has sound designed and mixed series for Audible, TED and Wondery, and as a producer, she has made work for the BBC, CBC, ABC RN and NPR. She’s the co-founder and artistic director of the sound art project and community Constellations.
CC Paschal is our Executive Editor and Director of Programming/New Show Development.
CC (she/they) is an award-winning audio journalist creating podcasts about art, culture and politics.
CC is currently developing a new season of her own show Spark, a podcast about the perils and paradoxes of creativity and working on her forthcoming book Audiocraft, The Art and Business of Making Podcasts that Mean Something, out later this year from Routledge.
Previously, CC was an editor on NPR’s critically acclaimed narrative series Louder Than a Riot, about the interconnected rise of mass incarceration and hip hop culture; as well as the award-winning independent show about intimacy and power, The Heart; and Malcolm Gladwell’s Broken Record. In 2017, she was a lead producer on Gimlet Media's Peabody award-winning production Uncivil.
CC’s leadership development includes her role as the founding program manager of PRX’s Podcast Garage, where she created the inaugural curriculum, as well her time as an Executive Fellow at the Corporation of Public Broadcasting in 2013, where she researched, analyzed and developed business and media strategies for young diverse audiences, including podcasting.
Academically, CC studied aesthetics, earning a B.A. in Art and Philosophy from Hamilton College in Clinton, NY in 2010.