kim nederveen pieterse

Hi, I’m Kim –

And I tell stories about ideas. Stories that bring big, heady concepts down to earth, by making them personal, visceral, and fun. Into audio you can feel. Much of my work weaves personal narratives with social science, to explore the edges of modern connection. 

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A mother who doesn’t understand why her kids have cut her off, talks to a daughter who has done the same to her parents.

Reported for Proxy with Yowei Shaw, Radiotopia
 

Two estrangement therapists grapple with a recurring mystery: why does communication seem to break down in one specific way, across so many estranged families?

Reported for Proxy with Yowei Shaw, Radiotopia
 

War, misinformation, and how to stay connected to people who disagree so deeply it’s as if they live in another reality.

Reported for The Pulse, WHYY

 

As we grow increasingly attached to AI, how "human" do we want chatbots to seem?

Produced for Up First, NPR​​

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Beyond this fascination with human connection, I'll dig into any subject that feels meaningful. I've made stories that investigate modern corporations to tiny human dramas. 

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CLEAR: How a private company inched its way into America’s airport security system, and what happens as America’s public services go private. ​ 

Reported for Up First, NPR
 

An attempt to resolve a seven-year-long Wikipedia edit fight, over one very dumb joke on the page of one very serious professor. By getting the only missing opinion that mattered: his. 

Reported for Reply All, Gimlet (Segment starts at 26:48) 

The story of a whistleblower inside the federal government, who found that DOGE representatives appeared to have taken sensitive data, and covered their tracks.

Produced for Up First, from NPR​​​​

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Over the years, I've produced and reported for NPR, Reply All, The Wall Street Journal, and TED. I was a founding producer and reporter on a new podcast called Proxy with Yowei Shaw (the former host of NPR's Invisibilia), that helps us make sense of the feelings that shape our lives.​ And a producer on The Sunday Story for NPR’s Up First, which dives into a single news story, every weekend. I've consulted on podcasts for Bain & Co and OpenAI. I've taught audio students at NYU.

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​I hold an MFA in narrative journalism from NYU and a Bachelor’s in psychology from UCLA. I adore folk music and running in forests and soft yellow light, but my favorite thing to do is kick it with my friends. I live in Brooklyn with seven roommates.​