Lissa Soep

Lissa Soep is senior editor for audio at Vox Media and special projects producer and senior scholar-in-residence at YR Media (formerly Youth Radio). She has produced award-winning radio stories for NPR and other outlets, and since 2020, she has edited narrative podcasts with Vox Media for Apple, Spotify, Audible, and Luminary and established the Vox Media Podcast Network Audio Academy, a learning and speaker series for aspiring and veteran audio makers. For six years, Lissa was a part of the Youth and Participatory Politics research network, a group of scholars brought together by the MacArthur Foundation to shift the paradigm on how we understand and promote youth civic life in digital times. Lissa is a senior civic media fellow at the Annenberg Innovation Lab and advisor to the Civic Imagination Project at the University of Southern California. She has a PhD from Stanford, where she studied education, social theory, and linguistic anthropology with leading Bakhtin scholars. She lives in San Francisco.