Who We Are
Corey Marie Green
Corey is a podcast producer and audio engineer who is passionate about telling stories, building community and making audio accessible.
They started their audio journey at Brisbane's 4ZZZ community radio station. They had been campaigning for the decriminalisation of abortion in Queensland and so became a regular guest, and then a host, of the women's show. They quickly realised the power of audio storytelling and so took on numerous roles as a broadcaster and journalist. Two notable examples of their work are Earth Matters, an award-winning environmental show which was broadcast on 25 stations around Australia, and the radio documentary Strengthened Pride which shone a light on Aboriginal child slavery in Queensland. Corey has since been involved in community radio at 3CR, Triple R, and JOY.
Long before they'd heard the term "podcast" they were publishing audio on the internet as a way to reach a wider audience and link in with online communities. Since this time they have been excited to watch podcasting evolve into a distinct artform; an artform which has opened up space for stories that were not widely covered in the legacy media. Corey has had the opportunity to work on many such projects, including Resurrection, which is a critically-acclaimed biopic of the bisexual playwright Daryl Allen who died in the AIDS crisis. Apple Podcasts Canada named Resurrection as one of their 10 Shows We Loved 2023, and Amazon Music Canada listed Resurrection in their Best Podcasts of the Year. Corey also contributed to Let's Talk About Sects which is an award-winning podcast about cults, and The Still Nest which is a place of solace for bereaved Muslim parents and their communities. These projects are notable not just because they're everyday stories that you might not hear in the legacy media, but because they have started conversations and built community.
In 2021 Corey compiled their experience into The Podcaster's Audio Handbook: A Technical Guide for Creative People which is available through Apress (Springer). This book was written to make audio information accessible so more people could tell their own stories through podcasting. This book was the winner of the Best Educational Ebook category in the 2022 ATOM Awards and is available at 450 libraries worldwide.
Corey founded Podcast Workers Australia which is a community striving to create a fairer podcast industry.
Click here for an extended list of radio and podcasting credits.
Teagan Thisby Young
Teagan is a video editor who accumulated ten years experience in corporate comms, short films and documentaries — including the award-winning biographic animated short Teagan — before returning to university to study psychology. She hopes to soon begin a PhD studying the development of foresight in young children, but continues to create both professionally and recreationally. She is passionate about environmental issues, and slightly obsessed with prehistoric creatures, especially pterosaurs.
Dr Laurel Mackenzie
Laurel’s passion for representing marginalised voices has inspired her varied career as oral historian, academic, radio presenter, and law student.
As a university lecturer, Laurel inspired her sociology students to unpack the unexamined assumptions that permeate everyday life, revealing that white, western, colonial views on things like sex, gender, work, ageing, nature, technology, death, language, childhood, mental health, and other social phenomena are far from ‘natural’ understandings of the world, but are all social constructions. This opens the door for other ideas, voices, and experiences.
Laurel’s PhD was based on a handful of life stories/narratives told to her by Hazara irregular migrants (and some of their children) who had arrived in Australia between 2001-2010. She hoped her work would add to the small but growing body of representations that allow the voices of participants to shine through, getting away from the top-down omniscient researcher perspective that informs much of western academia.
Recently, Laurel commenced a Juris Doctor at Melbourne Law School, which she will complete in 2025. Inspired by the refugee and asylum seeker narratives that formed the basis of her thesis, during which she had presented at international conferences as one of a handful of sociologists writing in legal areas, she decided to arm herself with the tools to try and make a difference.
Laurel was a radio presenter as part of the 3CR SUWA show’s anarcha-feminist collective between 2015-2017, and has been involved with Transducer Audio as a storytelling / narrative consultant since 2022. Laurel loves the way audio media can transport the listener through its focus on voice and the heard (rather than seen) environment.