Lucy Soucek
Senior Podcast Producer
About
Lucy Soucek is a senior producer at KUOW. She helped launch and now produces Booming, a podcast about the economic forces shaping our lives here in the Pacific Northwest. She also produces THE WILD with Chris Morgan, a podcast about the wonder and resilience of nature.
She's trudged through waist-deep sawgrass looking for pythons, waded through rivers in Alaska, and recorded fish sounds in the deep caves of Death Valley.
Before KUOW, she was a producer at Orbit Media in NYC and an announcer/producer at Maine Public Radio. She has a graduate degree from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism with a focus on longform narrative audio.
Location: Seattle
Languages Spoken: English
Pronouns: she/her
Podcasts
Stories
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From software engineer to bus driver: Where laid off tech workers are now
Tech workers are on the frontlines of a major shift in our economy. Where have the laid off tech workers gone? And what can the rest of us learn from the first shock in the AI earthquake?
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From Control F: The weird way we decide who sits below the poverty line
A special episode brought to us by our friends at Control F: the surprising history of the federal poverty line.
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Bird watching and listening with Libby Mills
Chris Morgan goes for a walk with naturalist Libby Mills in her backyard where she helps us slow down, listen deeply, and try to better understand what’s going on in a bird’s world.
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Will this summer's World Cup be an economic win for Seattle?
The World Cup is coming to Seattle this summer. Will the reward of hosting these games be worth the cost?
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Grey seals of Scotland: my lost tapes from 1994
I dig into 32-year-old audio cassette tapes from my time studying grey seals off the coast of Scotland and reconnect with my professor who hired me all those years ago.
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Grocery sticker shock and the rise of the dollar-store dinner
Creative hacks for putting food on the table now that your dollar doesn’t go as far as it used to.
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Could the hottest real estate market become... driveways?
State legislators want to make it legal to live in an RV in someone’s backyard or driveway year-round. Could that reduce the state's housing shortage?
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Back to the future: Genetically modified wildlife
A conversation with Helen Pilcher about the pros and cons of modifying wildlife and the ethics behind changing the very DNA of a wild animal.
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The great data center space race
Data centers needed more space, so they literally moved there.
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The Buffalo Boys of the Kalispel Tribe
Chris travels to the Kalispel reservation in Eastern Washington to visit the Buffalo Boys and tell the story of how they got their own herd, and what they’re doing to make sure that this magnificent creature will forever be a part of their lives.