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Lauren Williams

Fill-In Producer

About

Lauren Williams is a producer on Soundside, KUOW’s noontime show. She has produced segments on politics, history, and culture for the program. She’s passionate about connecting listeners to the world by exploring global issues in local contexts.

Lauren also produces for Afropop Worldwide, a Peabody Award-winning radio program about music from the African diaspora. She got her start in radio on the arts desk at WBUR, Boston’s NPR station, and Wonder Media Network, a podcast production studio in New York. She holds degrees from The American University of Paris and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.

Location: New York

Languages: English, French

Pronouns: she/her

Stories

  • caption: DJ Robert L. Scott in booth at Black-owned KYAC radio station, Seattle, May 1975.

    Remembering KYAC: the Seattle Black-owned radio station that felt like home

    If you wanted to hear soul music in Seattle circa 1970, there was one local station that would never disappoint: KYAC. For Black History Month, producer Lauren Williams went back in time to 1970s Seattle to ask folks about what it was like to work at and listen to KYAC during its heyday.

  • Remembering Soul Radio-o-o-o-o-o-o 1250 KYAC

    If you wanted to hear soul music in Seattle circa 1970, there was one local station that would never disappoint: KYAC. For Black History Month, producer Lauren Williams went back in time to 1970s Seattle to ask folks about what it was like to work at and listen to KYAC during its heyday.

  • This Valentine’s Day, find love in a stack of books

    Soundside host Libby Denkmann hosts a panel of experts on ROMANCE BOOKS! It's a Valentine's Day special as our guests discuss the latest & greatest in Romance Novels, so you too can fall in love at a bookstore near you.

  • Washington has a data center problem

    Last week, Governor Bob Ferguson signed an executive order to evaluate data centers’ impact on energy use, state tax revenue, and job creation.  The executive order follows a Seattle Times and ProPublica investigation into the impacts of the state’s power-guzzling data center industry. 

  • Rep. Adam Smith on the legality of the foreign aid freeze

    U.S. foreign aid is in the crosshairs of the Trump administration. It’s left organizations that provide services like HIV treatment, famine relief, and landmine removals scrambling to make sense of what comes next.