Sarah Leibovitz
Supervising Producer, Soundside
About
Sarah is supervising producer on Soundside, KUOW's noontime show. She's produced shows on topics ranging from maritime law to the Ukraine invasion to why people like board games. Prior to working at KUOW, Sarah was lead producer at the Seattle podcast production company Larj Media, and a teaching artist with Path with Art.
Sarah is an alumna of The Evergreen State College and Bard College at Simon’s Rock. You might have heard her DJing on KAOS community radio in Olympia if you were listening at 5 a.m. on Sundays. When she’s not working, Sarah enjoys spending her time attempting various craft projects, hanging out with her cat Angus, or skateboarding around the neighborhood.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English
Pronouns: she/her
Podcasts
Stories
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Four big housing ideas that could reshape greater Seattle: The Ripple Effect
The greater Seattle metro region is a hotbed of housing experimentation right now. In many different cities, people are talking about new ideas, new approaches to this problem of how to build enough housing without tearing apart vulnerable communities in the process.
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How displacement feels in this South Seattle community: The Ripple Effect
Below market rent prices have attracted a lot of new residents to the South Park neighborhood, where existing residents are especially vulnerable to being pushed out.
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Ripple Effect: a special Soundside episode about housing in greater Seattle
A quest across greater Seattle to understand how we can grow as a region without forcing people out.
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Health
Hear it again: Defying the odds, one patient at a time
Seattle author and doctor Patricia Grayhall went to medical school in the early 1970s, when gender discrimination and homophobia were commonplace in the field. Grayhall was forced to hide her identity as a lesbian and she faced sexism from superiors and colleagues.
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Business
Neighbors: UW professor and author Taso Lagos
UW Professor and author Taso Lagos first immigrated to Seattle with his family from Greece when he was just nine years old. For 40 years, this family constellated around the Continental Restaurant on University Way NE, near the University of Washington. Several years ago, Taso’s parents closed The Continental and retired. Taso and Libby Denkmann walk the Ave and talk about his memories of the U-District, and how the neighborhood and his parents’ old storefront has changed.
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Health
Kitsap County faces a dire OB-GYN shortage
Bringing babies into the world is hard work. And if you're an OB-GYN on the Kitsap Peninsula, it's recently gotten a lot harder.
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Science
A step closer to a new form of renewable energy: nuclear fusion
On Tuesday, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm walked up to a microphone to drop some big science news: Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California had achieved a fusion mileston.
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Health
The added challenges of getting mental health care as a farmworker
Getting care can already be difficult when you live in a rural area — but there’s also a stigma surrounding discussions of mental health and self care in the agricultural industry. And getting proper care for your mental needs depends on what work you do, and who you are.
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Environment
Bracing for the economic fallout after the collapse of the Bering Sea crab season
Alaska Bering Sea Crabbers Executive Director Jamie Goen joins Soundside to talk about the potential economic disaster of their canceled crab seasons.
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Politics
'We've got some breathing room': Sen. Patty Murray on the Georgia runoff election
One more Democrat in the Senate might not sound like a big deal. But the result in Tuesday’s Georgia runoff election does a bit more than give the party an extra buffer vote. The 51-49 split empowers Democratic committee chairs. Like the soon-to-be head of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee: Washington Sen. Patty Murray.