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“Mama’s House”, 2023 (24m)

writer/producer/host

Season premiere. Camara was only a child when she visited her grandmother’s unique house on the island of Dominica in the West Indies. But, when Hurricane Maria devastated the region in 2017, her grandmother died in the storm, leaving Camara to sift through her own hazy memories of her relative and her home and to reconcile a way forward.

An excerpt from this episode was featured on WBUR’s Here & Now as an editor’s pick.

“Griotte’s Beat”, 2023

producer

An interview podcast focused on how Black women from across the African diaspora can tackle injustice in their everyday lives, created and hosted by researcher Kaytura Felix. The first season featured conversations with scholars, stay-at-home mothers, romance authors, epidemiologists, and others.

“We Could Be These People”, 2018 (11m)

co-producer/co-writer

Frustrated by the lack of diversity in an upcoming mainstage musical, performer Ale Campillo staged their own show in rebuke. Reporters Camara Aaron and Nyeda Sam probe the Yale Dramat’s production of Spring Awakening and the grassroots show trans student and students of color put up in reaction to it.

This episode was reported for the Yale Daily News Magazine.

“A College of Their Own”, 2017 (19m)

producer/writer

In 2017, Yale University opened two new residential colleges: Benjamin Franklin and Pauli Murray. When reporter Camara Aaron (a member of Franklin’s inaugural first year class) noticed these dorms were Blacker than others on campus, she investigated why that may be, questioning how inclusive Yale really is for students of color.

This episode was originally developed for Chris Arnold’s Radio Journalism course. It was later published in the Yale Daily News Magazine.