Zahra Crim (2024)
Zahra Crim is a multiracial interdisciplinary audio producer and editor. Zahra earned a bachelor of arts in International Studies from Vassar College, pairing Black and Indigenous political social movements and familial memory with multimedia production. In 2022, Zahra was chosen by the Association of Independents in Radio to be a New Voices Scholar. Zahra has produced, edited, and reported for podcasts and radio programs across the country, including for The Texas Standard, KUT, KUTX, Getting Curious, and StoryCorps.
Zahra's work recently prioritized the stories of various international Indigenous communities, including producing and/or reporting stories that feature an Inuk microbiologist on arctic diets, a Kānaka Maoli scholar on the role of ice in Hawaiʻi, and interviewing Black Seminoles in Texas about their relationship to Juneteenth. Zahra continues to trace oral histories' relationship to folklore—with a focus on Indigenous horror, afrofuturism, and magical realism—as a way to understand and underscore the silences found in marginalized and/or diasporic communities' narratives. Zahra also focuses on the power dynamic between higher education + museums and the physical material preserved in their exhibits and archives, looking toward accessibility and consent.