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Heena Srivastava
709 W. Cornelia Ave.
Chicago, Illinois United States

Phone: 6304791551
Email: srivastav.heena28@gmail.com
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Audio Producer


Resumes ID: 11720
Resumes Views: 12
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Zip Code: 60657
Posted: 04.21.2026
Updated:
Job Type:
Job Category: Wire Services, Television, Online | New Media, Magazines, Fellowships | Scholarship | Prizes, Film,
Website: heenasriv.com

Objective

Purpose: technically-trained audio producer seeking to tell culturally, politically and systemically impactful stories


Education:

08.16.2017 - 06.11.2021
Northwestern University
Journalism, Political Science
Bachelor’s Degree


Work Experience:

05.01.2024 - 10.01.2025
Lead Producer
NPR |

● Relaunched NPR’s How To Do Everything from Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me!, managing detailed logistics such as building show calendars and infrastructure, pitching segments, conducting research, booking guests and directing hosts with in-studio tracking

● Edited, scored and QC’d episodes; recorded in the field; wrote scripts and copy; designed episode art; published via CMS; managed social media strategy, planned live events and fostered relationships across NPR departments for show promotion


01.01.2021 - 05.01.2024
Lead Producer
WBEZ |

● Lead producer on the long-form narrative series Stories Without End with award-winning Chicago journalist Natalie Moore

● Lead producer on the chart-topping narrative show Making; managed calendars; recorded in the field; pitched, pre-interviewed and booked sources; researched and prepped host; directed tracking; found archival tape; scripted, cut and published episodes

● Produced newscast for NPR’s Consider This, mixing anchor tracking, news segments and music within half an hour every day

● Launched WBEZ’s Art of Power hosted by Aarti Shahani; oversaw all show bookings, like Barack Obama, Dolores Huerta and Cori Bush; pitched, researched, and pre-interviewed guests; gathered archival tape; scripted, edited and scored episodes

● Pitched, reported and produced segments for WBEZ’s live daily news talk show Reset, which received 25,000 daily listeners


06.01.2020 - 08.01.2020
Researcher
Ben Austen and Bill Healy |
  • Wrote weekly articles, tracked down sources on TLOxp, conducted interviews, spent hours scouring hard-to-access archives and filed FOIA requests for the Peabody-finalist book Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change by author Ben Austen as well as Polk-winning podcast The Parole Room. Fact-checked This American Life episode “This Is the Case of Henry Dee”

06.01.2019 - 09.01.2019
Researcher
American Public Media, APM Reports |

● Mixed audio for investigations and narrative documentaries, including for the Peabody award-winning show In The Dark

● Researched, dug for archival tape and filed FOIAs in both English and Spanish for In The Dark seasons two and three

● Reported and wrote original investigations into Juul Labs, Inc., CLEAR, Mesabi Academy juvenile facility, and lead contamination


10.01.2017 - 01.01.2021
Digital Managing Editor
The Daily Northwestern |

● Produced award-winning multimedia investigative series Lead On, leading to Evanston city resolution 11-R-21


10.01.2025 -
Freelance Podcast Producer
Freelance |
  • Interviewing, gathering field tape, transcribing, storyboarding and providing editorial oversight for narrative video documentary hosted by journalist Keerti Gopal, following one man’s reentrance to society after release from Stateville Correctional Center
  • Reporting for City Bureau on pre-trial criminal detention hearings to track the success of a new Illinois law abolishing cash bai


Total Years Experience:

7 years

Skills:

Proficient with Adobe Audition, Descript, Pro Tools, Riverside, Otter, Vegas, REAPER, Microsoft Office Suite
Fluent in Spanish, native in English


Desired Salary:

$80,000.00

Occupations:

Audio Editor, Camera, Audio Sound, Chyron Operator, Columnist, Copy Editor/Copy Desk Chief, Copy Writer, Freelance Writer, On-Air Talent/Anchor/Talk Show Host, Producer-Assistant/Associate, Producer/Field, Producer-General/Executive, Production Assistant, Researcher/News Research, Web Producer



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