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Foo has also been noted for her commentary on diversity in media, especially for her 2015 essay, "What To Do If Your Workplace Is Too White." Introducing the piece at Transom,
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nominations: Best Special Class, Short Format Daytime Program; Best Writing Special Class; and Best Directing Special Class, with the project's director
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to a 2016 list of five best recent podcasts, saying Foo has "created her own playground...A place where she can try things out and see how they go."
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and moved to the United States with her family when she was two years old. She was abandoned by her parents in her teens.
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said it "should be required reading for everyone involved in building our workforce or programming." At
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project for sharing audio clips that became the Shortcut app. Foo was also a 2016 fellow at
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in 2008. During her time at UCSC, she was involved with the campus radio station,
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for Online Film & Video in the Drama: Individual Short or Episode category.
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Foo taught high school journalism after college, and began listening to
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s 2015 video project, "Videos 4 U: I Love You," which garnered three
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Foo served as the project lead on the development of an app from
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winning the latter category. The project also won the 2015
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called the piece "fantastic" and Foo "a force of nature."
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radio journalist, producer and author. She has worked for
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Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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grant from the Knight Prototype Fund to work on the
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University of California, Santa Cruz
This American Life
Daytime Emmy
Malaysia-born American
Snap Judgment
This American Life
complex PTSD
Malaysia
University of California, Santa Cruz
Stevenson College
KZSC
Radiolab
podcast
Glynn Washington
Oakland
Reply All
99% Invisible
Flavorwire
The New York Observer
pilot episode
CBC
Lindsay Michael
Darius Kazemi
Feel Train
social media
gifs
open-source code
The New York Observer
viral
Jay Allison

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