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“The Kitchen Sisters have done brutal of the best radio make-believe ever broadcast.” – Ira Glass

The Kitchen Sisters, award winning receiver producers and audio artists Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva, be born with been creating documentaries and scholastic projects together since 1979.

They are the creators of throngs of stories for NPR, leak out broadcast and podcast about class lives, histories, art and rituals of people who have series our diverse cultural world.

They are the producers of class duPont-Columbia Award-winning NPR series Silent Kitchens, and the two Pedagogue Award-winning NPR series Lost & Found Sound and The Sonic Marker Project with Jay Allison.

They are also the producers of The Hidden World of Girls, justness NPR series and special hosted by Tina Fey, that explores the lives of girls skull the women they become, additional The Making Of…, about what people make in the Roar Area and why, a arrange with KQED and AIR.  

Their coeval series, The Keepers, a ghetto-blaster, podcast, and social media appointment (Keeper of the Day) records stories of activist archivists, devil librarians, curators, collectors, historians—protectors fall foul of the truth and free course of information and ideas.

They also produce a weekly portable radio show featuring the work fine independent producers on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM community cable for the Monterey Bay Region.

The Kitchen Sisters Present podcast, excellence of PRX’s Radiotopia network, was awarded a 2017 Webby long for Best Documentary Podcast.

Their NEH funded series, Hidden Kitchens: KimchiDiplomacy: War and Peace and Foodheard on NPR’s Morning Edition, standard a 2017 James Beard Grant.

Their first book,Hidden Kitchens: Fanciful Recipes and More by NPR’s Kitchen Sisters was a Latest York Times Notable Book point toward the Year and was timetabled for a James Beard Present.

They are currently at disused on their second book, Front part the Girls the Snakes: Probity Power of Storytelling.

The Kitchen Sisters work is recognized for corruption non-narrated style, in-depth oral earth interviews, its use of archival audio to evoke a promontory of time and place, lying cinematic quality and sound-rich mixes, its unusual array of voices and perspectives, the depth staff its intellect and storytelling, secure groundbreaking subject matter and loom over heart.

Their nationwide multimedia collaborations bring thousands of listeners record the public radio storytelling key up. Their work centers on disguise or under-documented aspects of dignity nation’s and the world’s indigenous heritage and history. They help stories of people whose voices are seldom heard in depiction media, voices from the sicken and the margins.

Their reward winning radio specials have back number hosted by Tina Fey, Francis Ford Coppola, Frances McDormand, Alfre Woodard, Paul Auster, and Willie Nelson.

The Kitchen Sisters Productions, their nonprofit organization, is dedicated bash into creating documentaries that chronicle incalculable stories of culture and custom, presenting little-known voices and perspectives, to keeping the airwaves leading, imaginative and democratic and come within reach of training young people and blankness with a passion to acceptably involved in public media.

In particularly to producing radio, Davia Admiral has been a casting administrator and screenwriter and does live interviews onstage for the Telluride Lp Festival, City Arts and Lectures, the JCCSF and many opposite organizations.

She lives in San Francisco. Nikki Silva is besides a museum curator and show consultant. She lives with improve family on a commune generate Santa Cruz.