@_erisaja

creator / storyteller || currently journalist & podcast producer @invinst || formerly @southsideweekly

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Joined March 2023
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Emeline Posner@emelpos7 May 2024
chicago again! some of the best damn audio storytelling i've ever listened to, what a well-deserved honor. congrats to the whole team @YohanceLacour @_erisaja @chicagoan @sarahegeis
The Pulitzer Prizes@PulitzerPrizes6 May 2024
Replying to @PulitzerPrizes @hannahdreier @nytimes @stillsarita @NewYorker @sarahanneconway @city_bureau @invinst @Reuters @washingtonpost @katieengelhart @NYTmag @vkaramurza @JustinCChang @latimes @thedeadhandbook @AP
Congratulations to @invinst, USG Audio and @YohanceLacour. #Pulitzer
The staffs of the Invisible Institute and USG Audio have received the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Audio Reporting.

ALT The staffs of the Invisible Institute and USG Audio have received the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Audio Reporting.

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Invisible Institute@invinst7 May 2024
Replying to @invinst @trinattrill @sarahanneconway @city_bureau
You Didn't See Nothin revists the 1997 hate crime against Lenard Clark. YDSN team is: @YohanceLacour, @chicagoan, @brozost, @_erisaja, @sarahegeis, @FlowersAlison, @jeven_stackson, Phil Dmochowski, Taka Yasuzawa, Alex Sugiura, Jamie Kalven, & @JoshuaBloch for USG Audio.
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Erisa Apantaku retweeted
AIR@AIRmedia8 May 2024
Congrats 🎉 to @YohanceLacour (New Voices’ 22), @chicagoan, @_erisaja + @sarahegeis + @invinst for their @PulitzerPrizes in Audio Reporting. Watch them talk about the making of the investigative memoir “You Didn’t See Nothin” on SoundPath. Watch now: ow.ly/gKCk50RzCz5

Making You Didn't See Nothin

A conversation with audio excerpts about the making of the investigative memoir You Didn’t See Nothin'

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Invisible Institute@invinst7 May 2024
Replying to @invinst @trinattrill @sarahanneconway @city_bureau
You Didn't See Nothin revists the 1997 hate crime against Lenard Clark. YDSN team is: @YohanceLacour, @chicagoan, @brozost, @_erisaja, @sarahegeis, @FlowersAlison, @jeven_stackson, Phil Dmochowski, Taka Yasuzawa, Alex Sugiura, Jamie Kalven, & @JoshuaBloch for USG Audio.
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Do not miss this epic manifesto from @invinst on making the smart, cinematic stunner, "You Didn't See Nothin." 🧠 +❤️ +💪 + 👂transom.org/2024/yohancified… @UCP @YohanceLacour @sarahegeis @chicagoan @_erisaja @brozost
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just bought! and psyched for this event at Women and Children First eventbrite.com/e/in-person-e…

In-Person Event: WE ARE THE CULTURE by Arionne Nettles

For the past century, Black Chicago’s influence has permeated not just the city but really what we see today as modern-day pop culture

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Arionne (Are-REE-ahn) Nettles@ArionneNettles2 Apr 2024
IT’S A GIVEAWAY! Head over to Goodreads for your chance to win a free copy of We Are the Culture: Black Chicago’s Influence on Everything. bit.ly/watcbookreadsgiveaway
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Our podcast YOU DIDN'T SEE NOTHIN from @invinst is in 5th place (?!?!) in #Webbys People’s Voice! PLEASE RT + VOTE: vote.webbyawards.com/PublicV… @YohanceLacour @sarahegeis @chicagoan @brozost @JoshuaBloch
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Crucial Read: "It’s not that these people don’t know that an industrial-scale killing machine whirs just beyond their garden wall. They have simply learned to lead contented lives with ambient genocide." theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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It’s simple. Voting YES on March 19 will help thousands of homeless Chicagoans get out of the cold and into a home. Voting YES means: ✅ EXPANDING affordable housing. ✅ CUTTING taxes for 93% of homebuyers. ✅ The rich pay their FAIR share. Vote YES to #BringChicagoHome!
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kyle cL@kycarrerolopez12 Dec 2023
if you do like this piece & wish to support it in place of institutions, my pay info is below.
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Erisa Apantaku retweeted
kyle cL@kycarrerolopez12 Dec 2023
THREAD / i recently made the difficult decision to withdraw a poem from future publication in POETRY Magazine called ‘One Day I’ll Run for POTUS,’ says the Young Poet. it was difficult bc i’ve been navigating a layoff for several months & this one pub would have earned me ~$600.
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We’re happy to share that the @idaorg selected You Didn’t See Nothin as the best multi-part audio or documentary series of the year! Stream all episodes of You Didn’t See Nothin at the link in our bio or wherever you get your podcasts.
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I was working @nytimes on The Daily in May 2021 when Israel began another deadly bombing of Gaza While recording the show, I pushed back, called out the wishy washy pro-Israeli slant. In response, an editor outright said “you shouldn’t work on this bc you’re Palestinian” 🧵
Democracy Now!@democracynow14 Nov 2023
In their first broadcast interview since being forced out of @NYTmag for signing an open letter condemning Israel's siege on Gaza, award-winning writers @jazzedloon and @jamiekeiles speak out about their decisions to leave the publication.

NYT Mag writers resign to protest Gaza coverage

Jazmine Hughes is an award-winning former writer and editor at "The New York Times Magazine." Jamie Lauren Keiles is a former contributing writer at "The New York Times Magazine."

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SUCH an honor to have won an IDA award with the Invisible Institute audio team and USG!
International Documentary Association (IDA)@IDAorg13 Dec 2023
Congratulations to ‘You Didn't See Nothin,’ winner for Best Multi-Part Audio Documentary or Series at the 39th IDA Documentary Awards. #idaDocAwards @yohancelacour
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Congratulations to ‘You Didn't See Nothin,’ winner for Best Multi-Part Audio Documentary or Series at the 39th IDA Documentary Awards. #idaDocAwards @yohancelacour
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"I learned one major lesson after having spent much of the last decade researching and working in refugee camps in Jordan: a camp is an easy response to mass displacement, but never a solution." Read this Op-Ed by Melissa Gatter southsideweekly.com/op-ed-a-…

Op-Ed: A Camp is Never a Solution

What Johnson’s administration can learn from one of the top refugee-hosting countries in the world.

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Erisa Apantaku retweeted
Jess Shane@iamjessshane21 Nov 2023
My piece Accounts and Accountability was featured this week on German radio @DLF! Thanks to producer extraordinaire #IngoKottkamp for expanding some of the piece’s central questions in conversation with other documentarians hoerspielundfeature.de/accou…

Über den Markt für persönliche Geschichten - Accounts and Accountability

Sind persönliche Schicksale eine Handelsware? Mit einem Casting für erlebte Geschichten macht eine Dokumentarfilmerin die Probe.

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I learned so much story editing this episode! Check it out!
The Alaska Myth@thealaskamyth15 Nov 2023
New episode out today! Looking at some of the ways in which Russian colonization has been publicly remembered in Kodiak and how that’s changed from the 60s to today. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…

Episode 2: Kodiak Remembers

Podcast Episode · The Alaska Myth · November 15, 2023 · 29m

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🧵about common misperceptions about chicago's migrant crisis. i've heard folks say shelters aren't in white neighborhoods. untrue. wbez.org/stories/temporary-m…

From Woodlawn to West Ridge, migrants live in temporary shelters across Chicago

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