Queena Kim

Faculty – Associate Adjunct Professor

Queena Sook Kim is an audio reporter, producer, host and editor. Her most recent project is  seven-part podcast called “The Pill Plot,” which is about a ragtag group of activists and their quest to bring the abortion pill to the United States. The podcast broke into the top 200 podcasts and was produced for Sony Music Entertainment.

Kim was also a senior editor for Reveal, a weekly investigative reporting show that airs on NPR. While there, Kim edited a show investigating Doctors Without Borders, widely admired for bringing desperately needed medicare to communities around the world. While up to 90% of Doctors Without Borders’ health clinicians are locals, the majority of perks and income go to expats.

At Reveal, Queena also edited investigative audio documentaries on Amazon’s inability to protect its clients’ most personal information and the how Stand Your Ground laws have spread since Trayvon Martin was killed.

She was previously at KQED, the Bay Area’s leading news radio station, where she started up and supervised the weekend desk and crafted a more inclusive, diverse sound.

At KQED, Queena served as the senior editor of the KQED’s Silicon Valley Desk and was the host of The California Report, a daily morning show airing on KQED and on 30 stations across the state. She also edited an eight-part documentary, “The Political Mind of Jerry Brown.”

Kim was also a senior reporter covering technology for Marketplace and covered homebuilding and toys at The Wall Street Journal. She has spent much of her career starting up shows and editorial projects for local public radio stations, including one of public radio’s first podcasts about technology.

Her stories have appeared on NPR, WNYC’s The Takeaway, Here & Now, BBC’s Global Perspective and The New York Times’ multimedia page.

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