Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong
Producer
About
Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong is a producer on The Record. A multimedia storyteller and editor, she has lived and worked on five continents. Most recently, Adwoa was IDEO's storytelling fellow; she also served as producer for The Alliance for Media Arts + Culture's HatchLabs.
She has designed and implemented communications and outreach program at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, Evidence for Policy Design at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and for agricultural development projects with IFDC Nigeria. As Community Engagement Fellow in Prose at Mills College from 2013-15, she designed and implemented a digital storytelling workshop for immigrant and refugee teen girls. In the same capacity, co-produced a student documentary series for KALW public radio.
Adwoa holds a Master of Fine Arts from Mills College in Oakland and a Bachelor of Arts from New College of Florida in Sarasota. She is an alumna of the NextGeneration Radio and VONA fellowships.
To see more of Adwoa's past KUOW work, visit our archive site.
Stories
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The Record
DeRay McKesson will meet you On the Other Side of Freedom
The noted activist's new book makes the case for hope.
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The Record
Should the world's future be in the hands of the few?
How wise is it to trust the world's richest individuals to redistribute their wealth in a way that might challenge their own billions?
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The Record
This novelist asks: what are the limits of freedom?
Away from Barbados in a hot air balloon, a protagonist learns that he can't outrun himself forever.
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The Record
Results are in: women's pockets really are trash
We all know this is a problem. But until now, we didn't have the hard data to verify this societal scourge, this paltry pocket epidemic.
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Wham! Bam! Pow! Sikh Captain American takes on prejudice in a turban
After 9/11, Vishavjit Singh experienced an uptick in discrimination. "Al Qaeda," people hissed as he passed them on the street. "Terrorist." "Go back to...