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, fun. Into audio you can feel. I'll tackle any subject that feels meaningful, but mostly I focus on the most mysterious parts of our universe: our feelings and each other. The nature of our social and emotional worlds. Through stories like... 

 

How to stay connected to people who disagree so deeply, it’s as if they live in another reality (The Pulse). 

 

How “human” we want chatbots to seem, as we grow increasingly attached to AI (NPR). 

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What healthy masculinity might look like, after years of talking about what it isn’t. And how the hell you go about teaching that. (Coming soon on Proxy).​​

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Or...how to end 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. (Reply All)​

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I've produced and reported for NPR, Reply All, The Wall Street Journal, and TED, among other places. I've consulted on podcasts for Bain & Co and OpenAI. I've taught audio students at NYU. Currently, I’m producing a new podcast called Proxy with Yowei Shaw (the former host of Invisibilia), that helps us make sense of the feelings that shape our lives.​ I’m also a producer for The Sunday Story on NPR’s Up First, where we dive into a single news story, every weekend.

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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.​