Author: Mia Warren

Bio: Mia Warren (she/her) is an award-winning audio producer living in Brooklyn, NY. With more than a decade of experience, her work has been featured on Latino USA, PRI’s The World, and in Yes! Magazine. Prior to her role as Managing Director of Feet in 2 Worlds, Mia was a Senior Producer at Sony Podcasts, where she developed several narrative shows including All Relative: Defining Diego and This Is Jeopardy: The Story of America's Favorite Quiz Show. In 2020, Mia was the inaugural Editing Fellow at Fi2W, where she developed and produced a Golden Crane award-winning season of A Better Life? podcast, which explored how America's COVID-19 response impacted immigrant communities. As a producer at StoryCorps from 2015-2019, she created segments for their weekly broadcast on NPR's Morning Edition, contributed to their 2019 Peabody-nominated podcast season, and collaborated on Un(re)solved, StoryCorps' Emmy Award-winning civil rights series with Frontline. Mia is the daughter of a Korean immigrant and grew up in Boulder, Colorado. She is a voracious reader of fiction, bread baker, cyclist, and public transit enthusiast.

Contributions:

Uncovering Stories of Asian Americans in the Old West

Posted on: 19 May 2021

“They were there all along. I just didn’t know their stories.”

Podcasting in a Pandemic

Posted on: 26 Feb 2021

Lessons learned from producing during Covid-19

How Reconnecting with Our Immigrant Roots Can Help Us Survive 2021

Posted on: 22 Jan 2021

Families are drawing on recipes, traditions and ancestral practices.

Best Books Telling Immigrant Stories: Our Year-End Recommendations

Posted on: 22 Dec 2020

Great reads recommended by the staff of Fi2W.

It’s Our 15th Anniversary! Meet the Reporters Who Helped Launch Fi2W

Posted on: 20 May 2020

A look back at the team that produced our debut on public radio.

Conecta Arizona Provides a Lifeline to Spanish-Speakers During the Pandemic

Posted on: 11 May 2020

Our news service aims to fill the information gap in Arizona’s Latinx communities.

I Couldn’t Bear to Watch the Oscars, Then Parasite Won

Posted on: 14 Feb 2020

Commentary from Fi2W’s editing fellow Mia Warren.

Fi2W on the Radio: A Korean Restaurant in Brooklyn via Uzbekistan

Posted on: 12 Sep 2017

A restaurant reveals a little-known story of the Korean diaspora.