Podcasting An Institute

Hendel Leiva

Podcasting An Institute is a real-time experiment in building power through voice. Hosted by Hendel Leiva, the show follows an unfolding process: using a podcast to imagine, test, and potentially bring to life an Audio × Democracy Institute in public. Each episode follows the conversations and breakthroughs that surface in trying to build civic media infrastructure from the ground up without a finished blueprint. From late-night realizations to industry reckoning, to funding questions, Podcasting An Institute documents what becomes possible when audio isn’t just a medium but a starting point.

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Podcasting An Institute

Episodes (4)

Tue Feb 3rd After Age of Audio: Podcasting’s Structural Question
Tue Feb 3rd No Grant, No Permission: Why the Institute Starts with Voice, with Maria Javier
Tue Feb 3rd Building in Public: 3AM at Target, Dreaming an Institute

Podcasting An Institute

Feb 3, 2026
6 minutes
8 MB

At Podfest Multimedia Expo in Orlando, a screening of the documentary Age of Audio stirred a set of questions I couldn’t shake about where podcasting actually is today. Watching the film as someone who has spent years building audio inside nonprofits and movement spaces, I found myself both focused on podcasting’s origin story as well as its current phase. During the Q&A, I asked whether the film’s ending was pointing toward an existential question about podcasting’s identity—or a more practical one about economic instability—because the medium today feels pulled in multiple directions at once.

Podcasting An Institute

After Age of Audio: Podcasting’s Structural Question

Hendel Leiva

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