https://iruekpunobi.com iru ekpunobi Sat, 14 Jan 2023 05:35:03 +0000 https://iruekpunobi.com en https://iruekpunobi.com/Home-Page Sat, 14 Jan 2023 05:35:03 +0000 iru ekpunobi https://iruekpunobi.com/Home-Page hello! i’m a writer, radio artist and question-asker. 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)