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​Martina Castro is a podcast producer and consultant, and CEO & Founder of Adonde Media, a bilingual podcast production company. 

Over the past decade, she has produced and edited award-winning audio content in both the U.S. and Latin America. She has worked at National Public Radio (NPR) in Washington, D.C. and Culver City, CA, NPR member station KALW-FM in San Francisco, CA, and NPR's Radio Ambulante, a Spanish-language podcast she co-founded in 2011 and served as senior producer and sound designer 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 Edward R. Murrow award for The Race to An Emergency, a radio documentary about the 911-response system in Oakland, CA. 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 Garía Márquez para el Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano (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 in Montevideo, Uruguay, where her family is from. The grant culminated in a radio documentary series about reverse migration, which was produced in collaboration with students from the University of Montevideo. In 2016, that series was turned into an audio exhibit at the Museo de las Migraciones in Montevideo.

Martina currently lives in Santiago, Chile where she launched Adonde Media as part of the StartUp Chile accelerator in June 2017.
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​If you're curious to know more, here are some articles and interviews about her work:

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


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