Production and Communication Specialist, Interviewer

Interview Portfolio

Welcome, please enjoy the collection of Interviews at your leisure, and if you find a spark of inspiration from any of the stories you listen to today, please pass the spark forward.

Tova Friedman

Daughter of Auschwitz

Interview Conducted Sept. 7th, 2022. 

WBA 1st Place Small Market Radio 2022

In 1944, at the age of 5, Tova (Grossman) Friedman was sent to the Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Tova is one of the youngest recorded survivors of the camp, and shares her experience and story in one of the most unforgettable books of the 21st century.

Camilla Pang

An Outsider’s Guide to Humans

Interview Conducted Dec. 10th, 2020

WBA 1st Place Small Market Radio 2020

A book that started as a lifetime’s search to the question, “Is there an Instruction manual to understanding Humans?” Over two decades later, the question that Dr. Camilla Pang asked her mother has finally become an answer.

Travis M. Andrews

Because, He’s Jeff Goldblum

Interview Conducted May 4th, 2021

WBA 1st Place Small Market Radio 2021

Lanky, bespectacled, cat sweater-wearing actor Jeff Goldblum defies category. Leather-wearing Mathematician? Yep. Mutating Dipteran? Disgustingly yes. Living Meme? Absolutely. 

Kelefa Sanneh

Major Labels

Interview Conducted Oct. 21st, 2021

WBA 1st Place Small Market Radio 2021

Genre, A French word for “Community”, has become a social tattoo for audiophiles and music diehards alike, with as much (or more) importance than nationality and religion. But what does a genre really mean, and how do we continue to understand something that is constantly evolving? 

Tony Oppedisano

Sinatra and Me

Interview Conducted 2021

Tony Oppedisano was hesitating, and  Ole Blue Eyes knew it. In the later stage of his career, and in wanting a new road manager he trusted, Tony was his man, although he feared the job would ruin their relationship. Frank “looked at Tony for a long minute. And he said here’s my take on that. There’s only two people in this world that can screw up what we have and that’s you and me and it ain’t going to be me.” These are the stories that were shared  in the wee small hours.    

Pico Iyer

The Half Known Life

Interview Conducted Jan. 27th 2023

Sometimes it is near, sometimes  imagined impossibly far away. Humankind’s existence has been punctuated by the irrepressible and obsessive search for Paradise. Pico Iyer shares his own search for Paradise, and how it may be closer than if we think about it.    

Nancy Regan

From Showing Off to Showing Up

Interview Conducted Feb. 27th 2023

Am I good enough? Do I really have talent, or has nobody noticed yet? Success has its own rewards, and its own torments. Nancy Regan’s journey toward perfection was never enough, until she started to give up “enough”.     

Goldie Taylor

The Love You Save

Interview Conducted Feb.. 20th 2023

“Every day was not a bad day.” Goldie Taylor recalls her Auntie tending to laundry, watching distantly as another rain blew their way. Through the rains in her childhood, Goldie Taylor shares her pains and love in memoir that promises Love can be saved.