Brandi Fullwood
Senior Producer
About
Brandi Fullwood is a senior producer at KUOW. She currently works in Audioshop on special projects. She joined KUOW in 2019 as a producer on The Record and was promoted to her current position in 2021. She was also part of the team that launched the new iteration of the midday show Soundside. She has produced a range of stories from dinosaur experts to misinformation in the 2020 election.
Previously, Brandi worked for The World, a co-production of the BBC World Service. She focused on tech, culture, and environment stories. Brandi also led a collaborative project for The World and Smithsonian Folkways, creating pieces and reporting on music, culture, and communities like this and this and this.
Brandi has written and produced for NPR Music and Noisey Music, and has reported for the New Haven Independent. She grew a love for radio through Middlebury College radio station’s WRMC 91.1 FM.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English
Stories
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Politics
The voter formerly known as 'Soccer Mom'
White suburban women are one of the key groups of voters who will decide this midterm election. Traditionally, it’s a demographic that’s hard to pin down. And this year, inflation and abortion are shifting the votes, making it hard for candidates to tell who’s got the vote. UW assistant teaching professor and political consultant Cathy Allen will give us some insight.
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Arts & Life
Casual Friday with Katie Campbell and Hannah Weinberger
This week Halloween costumes got a little meta sometimes deviating in the hyper specific, Rep. Pramila Jayapal accidentally hit send on a letter to President Biden, and we’re staying up late…. at the 24 hour pottery studio. We’re breaking down the week with Crosscut’s Hannah Weinberger and KUOW’s Katie Campbell
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The Ghost In The River + Chloe Loves Horror
Our final episode is a two-parter. First, a story from RadioActive about a ghost that lives in the river surrounding a small village in north India. Then, KUOW’s Katy Sewall talks with 3-year-old and then 13-year-old Chloe and her dad, who love horror movies and watch them together.
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Ghosts Like Vacation Too
A 19-year old takes her travel industry job seriously, and doesn’t party with the rest of her team when they go on vacation research trips. But an early bedtime leads to an unusual visitation in the 19-year old’s Alaskan cruise ship cabin… particularly since she doesn’t believe in ghosts.
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K-Boo-O-W: But ... they’re my children
Once upon a time, there was a group of local ghost hunters called AGHOST - Amateur Ghost Hunters of Seattle-Tacoma. Radio producer Jake Warga went along with the group one creepy night. Terrifying hijinks ensue.
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K-Boo-O-W: Eleanor
A delivery of old clothing shows up at a dinner theater in Virginia, including an old wedding dress. The costume designer makes the dress a centerpiece of the play they’re doing, but the original owner of the dress doesn’t like that.
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K-Boo-O-W: The Secret Room
A UW college student discovers a secret, boarded-up room in his U District rental house and is overcome with the urge to get into the room. The house fights back
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Technology
Commuters beware: traffic ahead!
Oof! Traffic in the Seattle area... You can’t get over it, you can’t go through it, and sometimes you can’t even get around it. The push to revive the city comes with unpredictable traffic jams. Mark Hallenbeck, the director of the Washington State Transportation Center is here today to help us navigate the congestion.
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Health
Free Narcan vending machines in Pierce County
The rural town of Orting is getting its first Narcan vending machine. That’s a drug used to reverse an overdose and those machines are becoming increasingly more common--most first responders carry it. We’ll talk with the Recovery Cafe’s Rena Thompson about how these vending machines fit into a landscape of recovery, accessibility and support.
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Arts & Life
Casual Friday with Mike Davis and Rachel Terlep
This week our collective student loan debt got a little bit smaller, Downtown Seattle is trying to make its comeback, and things are getting less passive aggressive and a bit more aggressive-aggressive around here. Have you noticed? We’re breaking down the week with Rachel Terlep , the Senior Social Media Manager for the Washington Department of Natural Resources and Mike Davis KUOW's arts and culture reporter