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Xander Adams is an audio producer based in Louisiana. She is the Senior Audio Engineer for TransLash Media working on *The TransLash Podcas*t and sound designing *The Anti Trans Hate Machine*. She is also a fill-in audio engineer on Vox Media’s *Vergecast*. Her past reporting focused on HIV, Hep C, prison healthcare and conditions, and policing.
Résumé available here - pre-2022 bylines read “Alexander Charles Adams”

Recent Work

Featured

The Anti-Trans Hate Machine: A Plot Against Equality

for TransLash Media, the investigative series revealing the powerful network and ideology operating the anti-trans movement in the United States is back!

public health reporting

health and science reporting

Bad medicine in Louisiana prisons

for Scalawag Magazine, 10 out of 11 doctors overseeing health care for prisoners in the Louisiana Department of Corrections have a formerly suspended medical license.

Where Hep C Remains Untreated For Those In Custody

for 70 Million, we take a look into the implementation of Louisiana’s Hep C Elimination Program in the prison system.

HIV test sites challenged by COVID-19 restrictions in Baton Rouge

for Scalawag Magazine, the COVID pandemic has rattled low-cost, rapid testing for HIV in Louisiana

Has Louisiana Cracked The Code to Treating Hepatitis C?

for WWNO & WRKF: Louisiana Department of Health is rolling out an innovative payment model for treating Hepatitis C.

The Struggle to Change an HIV Narrative

for MIT's Undark: The history of a destigmatizing message about HIV transmission and how it finally made it to the public.

Baton Rouge Clinic Pilots New HIV Treatment Model

for WWNO & WRKF: A healthcare news feature on Rapid Start HIV Care beginning in Baton Rouge.

_~personal radio~_

stories from my own life

The Big Hard

for Netflix’s Tales of Your City: An Audio Documentary from Xander on the controversial closure of backrooms in New Orleans

Getting on PrEP is Harder Than You Think

for WHYY’s The Pulse: A healthcare audio essay from Xander on WHYY’s The Pulse

My Whitney - Love Me's "Take Me Home"

for CBC’s Love Me: a new piece from Xander on about siblings, sissies, and sleep.

"Rags" - Long Live the New Sound

for Long Live the New Sound: a sound art piece that captures the week of the Third Coast Ragdale Radio Residency in audio scrapbook form.

S/C: Keep Going

The Smash/Cut Season 3 Premiere

To Anthony - From Xander (or Heaven's Scent)

A little audiothingamabob for my boyfriend.

B l a s t from the Past

gems from 'before'

Hyper-Thetical with Kerry Bishé

A new Sci-Fi Podcast from Luminary and Transmitter Media. Sound design by Xander.

Quick Rising

The Smash/Cut TIME CAPSULE Shortseries Closer

A memory from the Great Flood of 2016 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana from Rachel Schiff-Arnold.

Dreamboy - A New Podcast with Night Vale Presents

A steamy musical drama from Dane Terry and Night Vale Presents. Xander was the Editor on this series.

The Third Coast International Audio Festival Radio Residency

Xander joins the Third Coast International Audio Festival’s Radio Residency 2018 Cohort

'Come On In' - KCRW Radio Race 2017 (UPDATE: 3rd Prize Winners!!)

My piece for the 2017 KCRW Radio Race (UPDATE: We're FINALISTS!!)

GL RY (A Performance Installation)

An Installation Art Project about Living with HIV

Recent Work

public health reporting

_~**personal radio**~_

B l a s t from the Past

_~personal radio~_