Photo: Young Cheong

Photo: Young Cheong

kamilah kashanie

host

Kamilah (she/her) graduated from Brooklyn College, where she studied broadcast journalism and sociology. She graduated from the Transom Audio Workshop in 2019. Kamilah’s love for radio blossomed out of a desire to understand more about what makes us who we are. As a storyteller, she’s committed to starting conversations to make lasting changes in underserved communities.

Kamilah and her older sister both got their first periods at the same time – even though they’re seven years apart.








Photo: Dupe Oyebolu

mia warren

executive producer

Mia (she/her) produces radio for StoryCorps in Brooklyn, NY. Previously, she reported for Marfa Public Radio in far west Texas and lived in Lima, Peru, where she documented stories in the Japanese Peruvian community on a Fulbright fellowship. Mia is an AIR New Voices Scholar ‘14.

Recently, she started using a menstrual cup – and is totally obsessed with it.




Photo: Jati Photography

Photo: Jati Photography

juleyka lantigua-williams

executive editor

Juleyka’s work as a multimedia journalist has reached tens of millions of people over the span of two decades. She is a former staff writer at The Atlantic and lead editor/producer at National Public Radio (NPR). In 2017, Juleyka (she/her) founded the digital media studio Lantigua Williams & Co.

She’s happy she’s been a late bloomer all her life.



Photo: Courtesy of Carolina Rodriguez

Photo: Courtesy of Carolina Rodriguez

carolina rodriguez

sound engineer

Carolina (she/her) is a musician and sound engineer based in Colombia. She has worked as a radio editor and host and has also produced music festivals. In 2017, Carolina graduated from the Audio Engineering Practicum at the Banff Centre in Canada.

She gets horrible cramps every first day of her period, but it’s nothing a nice hot water bottle or a long walk can't relieve.


 
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Lantigua Williams & Co. is a digital media studio whose mission is to support the work of creators from the margins and originate content that centers them as storytellers and subjects. They produce three original podcasts: the award-winning 70 Million, Latina to Latina, and Feeling My Flo, and also produce Key Conversations with Phi Beta Kappa and College Admissions Decoded from NACAC.