Spotify has announced the winners of its second annual Sound Up program, a five-day podcast accelerator designed to help women of color transform their creative ideas into fully-developed podcasts.
Out of 10 women selected to participate in this year’s program from a pool of thousands of applicants, four -- Christina Orlando, Janae Burris, Shayla Martin and SK -- have been awarded $10,000 each to fund their proposed podcasts, the streaming service announced Tuesday (Sept. 17).
Orlando -- a non-binary, Latinx New Yorker -- developed a time travel podcast concept that explores queer history; stand-up comedian Burris will explore how the loss of fathers affects people's lives; Martin’s podcast will center on issues of addiction, recovery and maintaining sobriety through the perspective of people of color; and SK -- a South Asian immigrant, former attorney and sexual abuse/domestic violence survivor -- will chronicle her story in a new podcast coming to Spotify.