Nishat Kurwa is VP and Executive Producer of Audio at Vox Media. She oversees programming strategy, new show development, and the Vox Media Studios’ podcast production team. Previously, Kurwa led the digital publishing team at American Public Media’s  Marketplace. Prior to Marketplace, Kurwa spent more than a decade as Senior Producer and News Director at the Peabody Award-winning independent production company  Youth Radio (NPR's Youth Desk), and concurrently as an editor at KCBS Radio in San Francisco.
She is a mentor for the Third Coast International Audio Festival's Radio Residency and also publishes the newsletter  Talk Story.