Kimberly Junod
World Cafe senior producer Kimberly Junod has been a part of the World Cafe team since 2001, when she started as the show's first line producer. In 2011 Kimberly launched (and continues to helm) World Cafe's Sense of Place series that includes social media, broadcast and video elements to take listeners across the U.S. and abroad with an intimate look at local music scenes. She was thrilled to be part of the team that received the 2006 ASCAP Deems Taylor Radio Broadcast Award for excellence in music programming. In the time she has spent at World Cafe, Kimberly has produced and edited thousands of interviews and recorded several hundred bands for the program, as well as supervised the show's production staff. She has also taught sound to young women (at Girl's Rock Philly) and adults (as an "Ask an Engineer" at WYNC's Werk It! Women's Podcast Festival).
Kimberly's interest in radio started from her love of music and sound. After graduating high school in Sydney, Australia, she spent several months learning multi-track recording and mixing at Eclipse Recording Studios in Sydney. Returning to the United States to study for her B.A. at the University of Pennsylvania, she got her start in radio with a student internship at WXPN (the station that produces World Cafe). After graduating Magna Cum Laude with dual majors in Communications and Music, she became WXPN's line producer, engineering the Peabody Award-winning show, Kids Corner. In 2004, Kimberly also earned a Masters in Social Work from the University of Pennsylvania and in 2021 completed a Certificate in Applied Positive Psychology. Outside of work, she has a passion: dragon boating, having represented the U.S. in the World Dragon Boat Championships and first International Dragon Boat Federation World Cup. She currently serves on the board of the United States Dragon Boat Federation (representing the Eastern Regional Dragon Boat Association) and is a part of the USDBF's High Performance Committee.
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The World Cafe team heads to Charm City for our latest Sense of Place series, including stories on Baltimore club music and a conversation with electronic musician Dan Deacon. We'll also be opening the vault to share conversations with some of our favorite Baltimore bands. -
Nearly two decades after announcing her retirement from music, Anne Murray is opening the vault once more. The country star breathes new life into long-forgotten recordings on Here You Are. -
For William Prince, leaving home was never the hard part. It's been finding his way back.The Canadian songwriter reflects on home and ambition as his sound grows bolder on Further from the Country. -
The singer-songwriter joins World Cafe for a new installment of Backtracking, where musicians revisit songs from their back catalog that have shaped their careers. -
Christmas is a time for getting together with family, eating too much delicious food and for celebrating another year together. That's exactly what Old Crow Medicine Show is doing on their new holiday album, OCMS Xmas. -
Seasons greetings! Today on World Cafe, we're trading in your typical winter wonderland for Christmas on the beach with ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro. -
Jeff Tweedy's longest and most ambitious solo album to date might also be his most personal. In this session, Tweedy is joined by his sons, Sammy and Spencer. He talks about the tight-knit relationships that created Twilight Override, and about his relentless need to create. -
If you turned on your radio in the mid-1980s, chances are you were going to hear something loud and bombastic. World Cafe correspondent John Morrison says that's exactly why the smooth R&B sound of the U.K. band Sade stood out. -
There are some people so endlessly inventive that it's almost impossible to imagine them getting writer's block. David Byrne is one of those people. The Scottish-American rock star teams up with New York's Ghost Train Orchestra. -
On Nobody's Girl, the singer-songwriter offers her perspective on her high-profile split from Jason Isbell.
