Padmini Raghunath
Padmini Raghunath is an award-winning journalist and audio producer. She works primarily on narrative series with an investigative bent. She’s helped produce Bad Watchdog, a podcast from the Project on Government Oversight, Silenced: The Radio Murders, a podcast from Kaleidoscope and iHeart podcast, and Innate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race, an NEH-grant funded podcast season from the Science History Institute.
She’s produced audio stories on a range of topics: the “Johnny Appleseed” of pirate radio, Berkeley war tax resisters, ritual period isolation in southern India, and a legislative battle over public nudity in San Francisco.
Padmini holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley and a bachelor’s degree in journalism and politics from New York University. In her past life as a print reporter, she covered the Disneyfication of New Orleans, sexual politics for Bitch Magazine, political soccer fans in eastern Turkey, and the eugenic origins of the field of behavioral genetics.
Most recently, her team won a 2024 National Press Club Journalism Award for Silenced: The Radio Murders.
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