Kristin Leong
Community Engagement Producer
About
Kristin Leong is KUOW's community engagement producer and the editor of our Seattle Story Project series. She is the creator of Curiosity Club, KUOW's nerdy supper club testing the possibility that a shared meal and compelling stories can transform a group of strangers into a community (KUOW.org/CuriosityClub). She was also the producer of KUOW's post-Covid lockdown web series Are We Going To Be Ok? (KUOW.org/OK), and she led the Station's community engagement for our Biggest Carbon Loser "reality radio" contest (KUOW.org/loser).
As one of 30 international TED-Ed Innovative Educators of 2017, Kristin founded RollCallProject.com, a global portrait and storytelling project humanizing the culture gaps in schools. ROLL CALL is used in classrooms around the world to fuel conversation about equity and representation.
Her portrait project, HALF: Biracial + Bicultural in America, was nominated for USA Today's Outstanding Academic & Intellectual Endeavor Award.
As a senior at Sarah Lawrence College, the New York Times called her a "graduate already in the driver's seat."
She is a 2018 Citizen University Fellow, a recipient of The Slants Foundation's 2020 Countering Hate Award, and a 2020 Seattle Mayor's Arts Award nominee.
Her latest adventure is ROCK PAPER RADIO (RockPaperRadio.com), a weekly newsletter for misfits and unlikely optimists.
Stories
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Seattle Now
Inside pandemic school
School is back in session. It's a bit exciting, a bit scary, and a lot weird. Today we go inside the first day of school at Mount View Elementary School in White Center to see what pandemic school looks like in action.
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Seattle Now
Go deep — piloting Puget Sound
Safely navigating narrow Puget Sound passages is tricky business, especially for cargo boats. Port pilots and scientists make these journeys possible.
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Seattle Now
Your garden might be a fire hazard
If you think you're safe from wildfires because you live in the city, think again. Those pine trees and juniper bushes outside your front door could be putting you in danger.
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Seattle Now
Ghost boats are haunting Puget Sound waters
It can cost over $10,000 to properly dispose of a boat that is no longer in working order. Some owners are choosing to abandon ship instead, causing big problems for marina managers and the environment.
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Seattle Now
Wine lovers, prepare to be crushed
Wildfire smoke is choking vineyards, ruining Pacific Northwest wines and threatening the family dreams of local winemakers.
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Seattle Now
An escape to one square inch of silence
Looking for some peace and quiet away from city life? From our friends at KUOW's The Wild, we’ll meet a Washingtonian who’s made it his life’s mission to preserve the sounds of nature.
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Seattle Now
Local designer aims to turn Seattle into fashion hot spot
Worried you won't remember how to get dressed once lockdown lifts? Fashion desinger Jamen Lanogwa Saziru believes there's hope for Puget Sound style beyond fleece and flannel.
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Seattle Now
How cities can change along with the PNW climate
The causes of June’s deadly heatwave are still being studied, but the early science says the usually mild PNW can expect more blistering heat, and more often. We get a picture of how it played out around the city, and hear from a climate scientist about how Seattle can adapt.
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Speakers Forum
'Shame changer': Sex tech CEO disrupts Asian stereotypes with adult films
Make Love Not Porn founder Cindy Gallop says the future of pornography is "social sex" and the end of fetishizing women of color.
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Engage
What does it mean to be Asian in America? We're listening
A special statewide broadcast on Asian and Pacific Islander identities and experiences in America today.