226 Brenda Salinas Baker - Reimagining the Podcast Landscape at Google

Brenda Salinas Baker is a trilingual public radio producer living in New York. Since receiving the highly competitive Kroc Fellowship at NPR in 2012, she has reported pieces for NPR’s flagship programs, Marketplace and PRI’s The World. Brenda also helped to relaunch NPR’s Latino USA as a full-hour show and reporting original stories for the show as a freelancer.

She has since worked as a founding producer of the personalized radio start-up, 60dB, and currently works at Google where her team is re-imagining the future of radio. In this episode, Harry and Brenda discuss her commitment to building a media landscape where every woman of color has the power to tell her story. They expound on how her storytelling skills have led to her success as a reporter, producer and expert in the audio space.