Biography
Martina Castro is CEO & Founder of Adonde Media, a globally-minded podcast production company.
Over the past 15 years, she has produced and edited award-winning audio content in both the U.S. and Latin America. She has worked at National Public Radio, at NPR member station KALW-FM and NPR's Radio Ambulante, a Spanish-language narrative journalism podcast she co-founded in 2011 and produced until September 2016.
Over the past 15 years, she has produced and edited award-winning audio content in both the U.S. and Latin America. She has worked at National Public Radio, at NPR member station KALW-FM and NPR's Radio Ambulante, a Spanish-language narrative journalism podcast she co-founded in 2011 and produced until September 2016.
Martina's independent work has aired nationally on NPR's All Things Considered and Morning Edition, played on stage at Pop Up Magazine, and has been recognized with various awards, including the 2014 national Edward R. Murrow award for best radio documentary.
Martina has produced a dozen live radio performances and given numerous workshops and talks on the art of narrative radio storytelling across the U.S. and Latin America, including at the Third Coast International Audio Festival in Chicago, IL and with the Fundación Gabriel García Márquez (FNPI) in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Cartagena, Colombia.
In 2015, she was elected to the board of directors of the Association of Independents in Radio (AIR) and was awarded a Fulbright grant to teach radio journalism at the University of Montevideo in Uruguay, where her family is from. The grant culminated in a radio documentary series about reverse migration and an audio exhibit at the Museo de las Migraciones in Montevideo.
In 2016, Martina moved to Santiago, Chile where she was accepted into the StartUp Chile accelerator program where she launched Adonde Media. She now lives in Brooklyn, New York, where Adonde Media is based. Since launching Adonde, Martina has led remote, multilingual and cross-continental teams to produce podcasts for clients such as Duolingo, TED, NPR, and Vice News.
If you're curious to know more, here are some articles and interviews about her work:
From Radio Ambulante to to Adonde Media: Why This Latina Is Building a Podcasting Empire -- Forbes, April 5, 2018
Arquitectura sonora e identitaria -- Montevideo No Podcast, Uruguay, Mayo 2016
Hablame de vos: Martina Castro -- Brecha Semanario, Uruguay, Marzo 2016
La cacería de Martina Castro -- Cerosetenta Podcast, Colombia, Enero 2016
Un lugar para Radio Ambulante en Montevideo -- Revista Bla (página 43), Uruguay, Diciembre 2015
Martina has produced a dozen live radio performances and given numerous workshops and talks on the art of narrative radio storytelling across the U.S. and Latin America, including at the Third Coast International Audio Festival in Chicago, IL and with the Fundación Gabriel García Márquez (FNPI) in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Cartagena, Colombia.
In 2015, she was elected to the board of directors of the Association of Independents in Radio (AIR) and was awarded a Fulbright grant to teach radio journalism at the University of Montevideo in Uruguay, where her family is from. The grant culminated in a radio documentary series about reverse migration and an audio exhibit at the Museo de las Migraciones in Montevideo.
In 2016, Martina moved to Santiago, Chile where she was accepted into the StartUp Chile accelerator program where she launched Adonde Media. She now lives in Brooklyn, New York, where Adonde Media is based. Since launching Adonde, Martina has led remote, multilingual and cross-continental teams to produce podcasts for clients such as Duolingo, TED, NPR, and Vice News.
If you're curious to know more, here are some articles and interviews about her work:
From Radio Ambulante to to Adonde Media: Why This Latina Is Building a Podcasting Empire -- Forbes, April 5, 2018
Arquitectura sonora e identitaria -- Montevideo No Podcast, Uruguay, Mayo 2016
Hablame de vos: Martina Castro -- Brecha Semanario, Uruguay, Marzo 2016
La cacería de Martina Castro -- Cerosetenta Podcast, Colombia, Enero 2016
Un lugar para Radio Ambulante en Montevideo -- Revista Bla (página 43), Uruguay, Diciembre 2015