I’m a youth worker and facilitator as well as an audio producer, I especially love it when I can combine all three things! My favourite example of that was Fear of Missing Out.
I am the co-founder and co-director of Boldface – a platform that works with community groups to produce audio, art and film.
I’ve designed and run training courses for In The Dark, All About Trans, Global Justice Now, HearSay Audio Arts Festival, XMTR Festival, Women in Prison, Somerset House, Serpentine Galleries, Metroland Cultures, The Empathy Museum, VICE, RTM FM, The Brixton Project, Alphabet Radio, Multitrack, Audible and primary and secondary schools around London.
safe + sound school: creative short form audio course
New Year New You?! Sign up to safe + sound’s 12 week Short Form Audio course starting Monday 12th January 2026! Are you an early career audio producer? Someone working in audio looking to push yourself creatively? Someone with editing knowledge from a different craft – musician / sound designer / mix engineer / drag…
Media Training
Heard: All About Trans – 2023 – presentI facilitate interactions for All About Trans: a project run by Heard. All About Trans brings together media professionals with a network of trans people for informal, off the record interactions intended as a safe learning space to improve trans representation in the mainstream media. In the Dark…
Youth Work
Literacy Pirates – 2025I am a session leader at The Literacy Pirates – a charity providing free, fun and creative after-school programmes that support children who need extra support in reading and writing. Global Justice Now – 2024I was the Executive Producer and Facilitator for The Secret World of Investor Courts: a four part series…
Interview MAGIC Short Course
I’m ran a 6 week short course on creative and ethical interviewing techniques through In the Dark, from 14th October to 18th November 2025. Participants learnt how to prepare for and conduct a creative, ethical interview, and received training and feedback on editing and sound design. By the end of the 6 weeks, each participant…
Multitrack
I’m the Fellows Co-Ordinator for the Multitrack Fellowship (September – December 2024). Multitrack is an entry level fellowship for people who face barriers entering the audio industry on the grounds of race, socioeconomic background and/or disability. Multitrack offers 3 months of paid work placements, weekly training, networking opportunities and a ring-fenced BBC commissioning round. I…
safe + sound
safe + sound is an audio collective formed by myself and Kit Callin. We run sonic open mic nights, lead workshops on audio making, and install immersive sound experiences at festivals. safe + sound originated as an audio open mic night and fundraiser – we ask for submissions on a different theme, and anyone who…
Global Justice Now
The Secret World of Investor Courts is a four part series made by the Global Justice Now Youth Network, exploring corporate power, colonialism and climate justice. I was the Executive Producer and Facilitator for the series. I ran a series of workshops for the group – Intro to Podcasting, Interviewing, Presenting, and Editing – and…
Collective Rhythms – Lead Artist
I was the Lead Artist for the 2023 Metroland Young Associates. It’s a paid alternative education programme for 18-24 year olds in Brent. This year’s programme – Collective Rhythms – focussed on the politics of sound. Read more here. Over 4 months, I designed and led workshops on things like: oral history, recording and editing…
BOLDFACE- Co-Director
Boldface is a platform that works with community groups to produce audio, art and film. I founded and run Boldface with artist Izzy Yon. Recent Projects: Fear of Missing OutA documentary series presented by young people living in the UK, about the bits of British History that people aren’t talking about enough. Read more here.…
Fear of Missing Out Podcast
Listen to FOMO! Fear of Missing Out is a documentary series presented by 16-25 year olds living in the UK, exploring the history they wish they’d learnt at school. Over 6 episodes, FOMO delves into the history of British colonialism, media representation of queer communities, The Police, segregated education in the North of Ireland, British…
Down the Rabbit Hole Project
Down the Rabbit Hole is an audio storytelling project that I designed, facilitated and produced in collaboration with Women in Prison, The Empathy Museum and National Prison Radio working with three incredible women – Rita, Elizabeth and Angel – who access services at The Beth Centre in Lambeth. This was a project I ran through…
VENT Podcasts – VICE X Brent 2020
VENT is an award winning podcasting collaboration between VICE UK and Brent 2020, London Borough of culture. Across 1 year, 2 streams, and just under 100 podcasts in total, VENT saw VICE handing over the megaphone of its global platform to the local young people of a single London borough, who tell the stories they…
ALPHABET
I’m part of the team of Alphabet Radio: a pop up queer radio station started in lockdown. Alphabet’s Intro to Audio Course I designed and delivered a 10 week training course for LGBTQ+ people who are interested in getting into audio production and presenting. The course ran from March – May 2021. The course was…
RADIO THAMESMEAD
I really love opportunities to support other people to make radio who haven’t before. I was able to run group and one on one workshops to support Thamesmead residents to plan and make pre-recorded and live programmes for their new community radio station Radio Thamesmeade in collaboration with TACO. It was slick.
SETTLED IN GLASGOW
The way I got into audio was through oral history. It’s a way of democratising how certain histories are remembered. When I was living in Glasgow, I started the Settled in Glasgow Oral History Archive – it’s a collection of memories of Glaswegians who were born outside the UK. I also ended up co-curating an…
JESSE LAWSON 