Will Coley | Aquifer Media

Experience

Podcast Producer: Vanity Fair’s Dynasty, Inside the Hive, and Still Watching – Condé Nast, 2023

• Overseeing show development, supervising logistics and editing audio of weekly episodes
• Prepping and coaching talent on episode topics, tracking and interviewing techniques
• Managing and supervising sound engineers and designers for studio and remote recording sessions
• Collaborating with social media and editorial teams for episode promotion

Reporter/Producer: The New Yorker Radio Hour andNew York Public Radio/WNYC, 2022

• Researched, wrote, and edited host-led interviews (studio and remote) for weekly show
• Coordinated interview recording logistics and edited audio for show segments

Senior Producer: Childproof & More than A Feeling podcasts for Ten Percent Happier, 2021 – 2022

• Researched, produced, edited and promoted segments and episodes for two wellness podcasts

Lead Storyteller: Lambent Foundation for Contemporary Art and Aesthetics, 2020 – 2021

• Launched and curated new CRM system and published e-blasts for grantee partner gatherings
• Created website content about Lambent’s history, values, and network

Podcast Producer and Communications Coordinator: The Opportunity Agenda, 2016 -2021

• Designed and implemented production and promotion of human rightsnarrative podcast
• Provided effective communications advice to human rights partners via regular e-newsletters
• Designed audio distribution strategy in collaboration with organizational teams

Independent Audio Producer, 2011- present

• Selected as a BBC Global Stories producer to make 2015 documentary “The Abandoned”
• For 99% Invisible, pitched/co-produced 2016 episode, “H Day” about Sweden’s driving side switch
• For NPR Morning Edition, reported “Former Refugee Helps Others Arriving at JFK Airport” in 2016
• For The World, produced stories about COVID art, a Mexican deportee and Moomins, 2015 – 2023
• For BBC’s Cultural Frontline, reported stories including “New Amsterdam Musical Association,” 2018
• For Immigrant Defense Project, produced Indefensible about people resisting deportation, 2017
• For KCRW, produced 2014 documentary, “Southern Flight 242,” about father’s plane crash

Digital Strategist and Video Producer: Aquifer Media, 2008 – 2018

• Designed and executed online strategy for Making Gay History and Detention Watch Network
• Organized, recorded and edited videos for ACLU of Southern California, UNHCR, among others