now: i’m a producer at new york public radio. i help produce the podcast nyc now where i surface answers to all levels of questions about culture, infrastructure, power and history in new york city.
previously: i was a fellow at the national radio show marketplace finding human stories about life and money in economic data.
before that: i was a teaching assistant at the salt institute for documentary studies, produced narrative + news podcasts at abc news, and taught audre lorde-inspired radio workshops at wave farm and the library of congress.
i hosted a wnyu college radio show on revolutionary african music from 11pm-2am on wednesdays and wrote my senior thesis on radio as a third place.
Iru Ekpunobi Join[s] the WNYC/Gothamist Newsroom (2025)
Iru Ekpunobi - Marketplace PM Fellow (2025)
Interview with Our Inaugural Gimlet Union Scholarship Recipient (2024)
Wave Farm Radio Art Fellow: Iru Ekpunobi (2023)
“Spice Up Your Video Conference Backgrounds After a Visit to the “Zoom Museum” (2020)
Iru Ekpunobi - Marketplace PM Fellow (2025)
Interview with Our Inaugural Gimlet Union Scholarship Recipient (2024)
Wave Farm Radio Art Fellow: Iru Ekpunobi (2023)
“Spice Up Your Video Conference Backgrounds After a Visit to the “Zoom Museum” (2020)