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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

  • Pharmacies are sick. Is there a cure?

    Bartell Drugs, CVS, Walgreens, and independent pharmacies everywhere are struggling to stay afloat. So what’s making pharmacies sick... and is there a cure? 

  • Will AI collapse the career ladder?

    It's graduation season. But it's a tough time to be looking for your first job. On today's episode, entry-level jobs are supposed to be the first rung of the career ladder. So why is that ladder breaking? And what can new grads do about it?

  • Whiplash at the Port of Seattle

    We visit the gateway to the Pacific to find out what the Port of Seattle really tells us about the chaotic state of international trade. And now that China and the US are trying to work things out, will trade bounce back? 

  • The plan to boost Black homeownership

    Across Seattle, less than half as many Black households own homes as white families. But there's a new law that could help turn that around by expanding the Covenant Home Ownership program. Joshua explains why Black homeownership has plummeted and what lawmakers are doing to boost it.

  • Should social media have a bedtime?

    Experts say kids are spinning out online. Can Washington lawmakers help by putting seatbelts on social media? Monica talks to social psychologist Ravi Iyer from the University of Southern California about what Senate Bill 5708 and its proposed social media regulations might mean - not just for kids, but parents and the companies themselves. 

  • Could layoffs lead to a startup baby boom?

    For months, Seattle's tech industry has been reeling from layoffs. But could these layoffs lead to a startup baby boom? Monica sits down with Geekwire co-founder Todd Bishop to find out.

  • Your guide to Seattle's udon scene

    Tan visits udon noodle house Azuki in Madison Valley to learn about how Chef Ryuji Miyata makes his noodles by hand. Later, Tan recommends some more casual and budget-friendly udon places.

  • Why you can't afford to ski anymore

    Skiing has never been cheap, but it used to be accessible to families and casual skiers. Now the slopes seem to have turned into playgrounds for the rich. So can we find a way for everyone to access the mountains?