I am a writer + audio producer especially interested in the stories of immigrant communities and the inevitable connections between stories from abroad and our lives here in the US. Amongst many adventures, I’ve been diving with elderly mermaids on Jeju Island, trailed a group of Catholic nuns that reunites families separated at the US Mexico border, and interviewed a North Korean film director with his leading lady.

My work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Geographic, California Sunday Magazine, Snap Judgment, Atlas Obscura, 70 Million, Queens Memory, the BBC, NPR, WGBH, and PRX The World, amongst other outlets.

Awards include an Edward R. Murrow Award, a Webby, Signal Award, an ONA, Asian American Journalists Award, Religion News Association Award, Society for Features Journalism Award, and The New Yorker Festivals Radio Award.

Live storytelling experience includes The Moth, PRX LA Live, and Club Passim. Heidi also teaches at the PRX Podcast Garage and Harvard University’s Sound Lab and organizes the Sonic Soiree. I am often invited to speak about reporting in immigrant communities, reporting about mental health, women’s issues, and bringing new voices to podcasting.