Sara McCrea

Sara McCrea is an independent audio producer, writer, and researcher based in Brooklyn, New York and Boulder, Colorado. She is a creative producer and interdisciplinary artist at the Institute for Climate Sound & Society[https://mlml.io/p/institute-for-climate-sound-and-society/] at metaLAB(at)Harvard, where she is exploring how the use of field recordings and passive acoustic monitoring might enable narrative agency of nonhuman subjects in documentary storytelling. Trained in journalism and the history of ideas, Sara reports stories and crafts interviews that examine our relationships with one another and our environments. She wrote and produced two seasons of the award-winning series “McCartney: A Life in Lyrics” for Pushkin Industries, and she has produced podcasts and audiobooks for organizations including Slate Magazine, TED Audio Collective, Audible, the Center for Humane Technology and American Public Media. She is the founder of the Early Career Audio Collective, which provides resources and community for emerging U.S. audio producers, and a grantee of the Inevitable Foundation’s Elevate for Podcasters initiative.

Sara is a graduate of Wesleyan University and studied interdisciplinary humanities and intellectual history in the university’s College of Letters program. While at Wesleyan, she was also a Think Tank Fellow in the College of the Environment, where she studied biosemiotics and wrote a thesis crafting an ecofeminist approach to narrative structure and subjectivity, drawing from Ursula Le Guin’s “carrier bag theory of fiction.” She was a 2023-2024 scholar in the New School of the Anthropocene, an environmental humanities and art collective based at the October Gallery in London.