I am a documentary maker, journalist, artist and educator based in Brooklyn, NY.
I've produced audio documentaries, news reports, current affairs shows and podcasts for the CBC (The Doc Project, Out in the Open, Dispatches, The World this Weekend) and the BBC (Short Cuts). I’ve worked as a podcast development consultant, supervising producer and story editor for editorial and branded narrative podcasts (DDx, Sick Kids Vs.).
My writing and multimedia work have appeared in publications like The Walrus, The Globe and Mail, The Local, Chatelaine and Today's Parent.
My short films and audio documentaries have been presented in juried festivals around the world.
For audio documentary, I have won a national RTDNA Award, a silver Canadian Digital Publishing Award and have been a finalist at the Third Coast/RHDF Competition, The Hearsay International Audio Festival and the Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) awards. My films have been awarded jury and audience prizes at international festivals. As a feature writer, I've won two Golds at the Canadian Digital Publishing Awards, and have been a finalist at the National Magazine Awards and CAJ Awards.
I am the Director of Audio Journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York (CUNY). Student-produced work that I have advised and edited has been awarded multiple national student journalism awards. Graduates of our program go on to top jobs in podcasting and radio and have won every major US journalism award including the Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting, duPont-Columbia and Peabody awards. I previously taught at Toronto Metropolitan University and Humber College in Toronto, Canada.
I am one of the founding editors of Sound Fields, a publication and event series about the art and craft of audio documentary.
You can reach me at kallipearl@gmail.com
Or follow me @kallipearl on Twitter or @kalli.pearl.anderson on Instagram and Threads
(Pearl is my middle name, after my great grandmother)