We’re a group of narrative audio editors committed to bringing more voices into our industry.
Our Story
The four of us got lucky: we overlapped for several years at NPR member station KALW in San Francisco, where we experienced a rare and valuable model of training, mentorship, and real-world experience that allowed all of us to learn from the best, practice our craft, and edit countless narrative audio stories for podcast and broadcast. We’ve all continued to work together in the years since, collaborating, editing each others’ work, and lifting each other up as we each pursued paths as editors. This is what we want for you.
Read a bit more about each of us below.
Jen Chien is Executive Editor for Lantigua Williams & Co. Previously, she was Senior Radio Editor at Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting and Managing Editor for Crosscurrents and KALW News. She has been a contributor to All Things Considered, Radio Netherlands Worldwide, BBC/PRI’s The World, Making Contact, SF Public Press, East Bay Express, New America Media, and KPFA in Berkeley, where she took part in the First Voice Apprenticeship Program. Awards recognitions include Third Coast, Peabody, Gracies, ONA/OJA, and SPJ Sigma Delta Chi. She holds a BA in American Studies from Smith College, and an MA in Interdisciplinary Performance from New College of California. Before entering the field of journalism, she had a successful career as a professional dance and theater artist, arts teacher, and massage therapist.
Casey Miner is an award-winning narrative audio editor, producer, and writer who's worked with outlets including Wondery, Reveal, 70 Million, The Stoop, NPR, Slate, Pop-Up Magazine, and Mother Jones. Previously, she led creative teams for Al Jazeera and KALW; taught audio production and narrative structure at the University of California, Berkeley; and launched and hosted The Specialist, a podcast about work we don't think about and the people who do it. She does her best work when collaborating with other members of the Editors Collective.
Leila Day is an award winning audio producer and editor, currently editing stories for Pineapple Street Studios.
She's the co-creator and co-host of The Stoop Podcast, stories about the Black diaspora, and she's the Executive Producer of Stoop Talks.
Leila began her audio career as a reporter and editor at KALW in San Francisco, she’s produced stories for multiple media outlets, and has taught audio storytelling at the Transom Storytelling workshop where she serves on the board. Leila has produced and edited stories for Marvel, NPR, NBC and more.
Before audio, Leila worked in marketing in New York which is why she knows that the response “We don’t know how to market your podcast,” is code for something else.
Julie Caine is senior editor for NPR’s Throughline podcast. She led podcasting and on-demand audio at KQED Public Radio, overseeing strategy, new show development, and a vibrant portfolio, including Truth Be Told, Rightnowish, and Unsealed. She helped found Jetty Studios, an international podcast unit for the Al Jazeera Media Network, where she launched Closer Than They Appear and Game of Our Lives, and developed The Take. She’s a founding producer and editor on The Stoop and The Specialist podcasts, and was managing producer for Crosscurrents at KALW Public Radio.