Olivia is an audio journalist, producer, and editor, currently working as a story editor on the Wondery series Scamfluencers and as a contributing reporter/producer for Slate’s Decoder Ring. Her freelance clients include iHeart Radio, Hello Sunshine, Slate Magazine, Arcana Audio, and Lola Media. Previously, she was a producer for Not Past It, a Spotify original podcast produced by ZSP Media and Gimlet Media, and also worked at Marc Smerling’s truth.media, where she reported and produced the hit series Crooked City in partnership with Sony Music Entertainment. She spent the first five years of her audio career at WNYC, where she was a producer for Fishko Files. Her work has appeared on Planet Money, On the Media, Studio 360, The New Yorker: Fiction, Notes from America, Morning Edition, and All Things Considered, and has been recognized multiple times by RTDNA’s Edward R. Murrow Awards, the New York Press Club, the Newswomen's Club of New York, the National Headliner Awards, and the Ambies.
Before she got into audio, Olivia worked in film & TV development and documentary production in both New York and Los Angeles. She is originally from New York and graduated magna cum laude from Emerson College with a BA in screenwriting and film production. She currently lives in Brooklyn with her partner and their enormous cat, Louie.
You can find more of her work with WNYC here.