Martina Castro | |
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Born | 1982 (age 41–42)
Maryland, United States |
Alma mater | Amherst College |
Occupation(s) | Journalist, editor, producer, educator |
Website |
martinacastro |
Martina Castro is an Uruguayan-American audio journalist, editor, producer, and educator. She is the CEO and founder of Adonde Media, a podcast production company and host of the Duolingo Spanish and The Vivo Songbook Podcasts. She co-founded and produced Radio Ambulante, the first Spanish-language podcast distributed by NPR.
Castro was born in 1982 in Maryland to a mother and father from Montevideo, Uruguay. [1] As a young child, she first spoke Spanish and then learned English, [2] and then immersed herself in Spanish during a month-long visit to Uruguay when she was 13, after which she has said she began to think in Spanish. [1] Throughout her childhood, she regularly visited her family in Uruguay. [3]
Castro attended Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia,[ citation needed] and then attended Amherst College. While in college, Castro wrote the first blog for NPR's Next Generation Radio program. [3] Castro graduated from Amherst in 2004, [4] majoring in women's and gender studies.
After graduating college, Castro had an internship at NPR, and then worked at NPR for four and a half years on a variety of NPR's newsprograms. [3] After NPR, she worked at KALW, an NPR member station in San Francisco, California. At KALW, she was a managing editor of the KALW show Crosscurrents and produced a series titled Audiophiles. [5]
In 2011, Castro co-founded Radio Ambulante with Daniel Alarcón, Carolina Guerrero, and Annie Correal; [6] [7] [8] the show is now distributed by NPR, [9] and Castro also worked as a sound designer for the project. [10] Castro has also worked independently on other projects for All Things Considered and Morning Edition.
In 2015, Castro received a Fulbright grant to teach the art of audio storytelling at the University of Montevideo in Uruguay. She then moved to Chile and applied to the incubator program StartUp Chile. [2] In that program, she started Adonde Media, a global production company focused on podcasts in Spanish. [3]
Since its founding in 2017, Adonde Media clients have included Duolingo, TED, Spotify, Vice News, and Georgetown University. [9] In 2017, the Duolingo Spanish Podcast launched, hosted and co-produced by Castro, to support English speakers learning Spanish, using true first-person stories from around the Spanish-speaking world. [11] [12] In 2020, Castro narrated a six-part series titled "El Gran Robo Argentino" ("The Great Argentine Heist") on the Duolingo Spanish Podcast, focused on the true story of a 2006 bank robbery in Argentina, [13] with interviews of people related to the historical event. [14] [15]
Castro has also focused on data collection about podcast user interests and habits; in 2019, the community of Spanish language podcasters that she co-founded called Podcaster@s, conducted the first collaborative podcast listener survey, [16] and in 2020, Adonde Media was a funder of the first U.S. Latino Podcast Listener Report by Edison Research. [9] [17]
In 2020, Adonde Media announced it would produce and distribute the fifth season of the Spanish-language podcast, Las Raras, with Castro as the executive producer. [9] Castro was the executive producer of the Las Raras episode "Cruces en el desierto" (Crosses in the Desert), [18] which won the 2020 Best Audio Documentary award from the International Documentary Association. [19] In 2021, Adonde Media and Hrishikesh Hirway announced their partnership with support from PRX's Radiotopia to produce a spinoff of Song Exploder, titled Canción Exploder, for Spanish-speaking audiences. [20]
Martina Castro | |
---|---|
Born | 1982 (age 41–42)
Maryland, United States |
Alma mater | Amherst College |
Occupation(s) | Journalist, editor, producer, educator |
Website |
martinacastro |
Martina Castro is an Uruguayan-American audio journalist, editor, producer, and educator. She is the CEO and founder of Adonde Media, a podcast production company and host of the Duolingo Spanish and The Vivo Songbook Podcasts. She co-founded and produced Radio Ambulante, the first Spanish-language podcast distributed by NPR.
Castro was born in 1982 in Maryland to a mother and father from Montevideo, Uruguay. [1] As a young child, she first spoke Spanish and then learned English, [2] and then immersed herself in Spanish during a month-long visit to Uruguay when she was 13, after which she has said she began to think in Spanish. [1] Throughout her childhood, she regularly visited her family in Uruguay. [3]
Castro attended Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia,[ citation needed] and then attended Amherst College. While in college, Castro wrote the first blog for NPR's Next Generation Radio program. [3] Castro graduated from Amherst in 2004, [4] majoring in women's and gender studies.
After graduating college, Castro had an internship at NPR, and then worked at NPR for four and a half years on a variety of NPR's newsprograms. [3] After NPR, she worked at KALW, an NPR member station in San Francisco, California. At KALW, she was a managing editor of the KALW show Crosscurrents and produced a series titled Audiophiles. [5]
In 2011, Castro co-founded Radio Ambulante with Daniel Alarcón, Carolina Guerrero, and Annie Correal; [6] [7] [8] the show is now distributed by NPR, [9] and Castro also worked as a sound designer for the project. [10] Castro has also worked independently on other projects for All Things Considered and Morning Edition.
In 2015, Castro received a Fulbright grant to teach the art of audio storytelling at the University of Montevideo in Uruguay. She then moved to Chile and applied to the incubator program StartUp Chile. [2] In that program, she started Adonde Media, a global production company focused on podcasts in Spanish. [3]
Since its founding in 2017, Adonde Media clients have included Duolingo, TED, Spotify, Vice News, and Georgetown University. [9] In 2017, the Duolingo Spanish Podcast launched, hosted and co-produced by Castro, to support English speakers learning Spanish, using true first-person stories from around the Spanish-speaking world. [11] [12] In 2020, Castro narrated a six-part series titled "El Gran Robo Argentino" ("The Great Argentine Heist") on the Duolingo Spanish Podcast, focused on the true story of a 2006 bank robbery in Argentina, [13] with interviews of people related to the historical event. [14] [15]
Castro has also focused on data collection about podcast user interests and habits; in 2019, the community of Spanish language podcasters that she co-founded called Podcaster@s, conducted the first collaborative podcast listener survey, [16] and in 2020, Adonde Media was a funder of the first U.S. Latino Podcast Listener Report by Edison Research. [9] [17]
In 2020, Adonde Media announced it would produce and distribute the fifth season of the Spanish-language podcast, Las Raras, with Castro as the executive producer. [9] Castro was the executive producer of the Las Raras episode "Cruces en el desierto" (Crosses in the Desert), [18] which won the 2020 Best Audio Documentary award from the International Documentary Association. [19] In 2021, Adonde Media and Hrishikesh Hirway announced their partnership with support from PRX's Radiotopia to produce a spinoff of Song Exploder, titled Canción Exploder, for Spanish-speaking audiences. [20]