Leital Molad
Leital has been with Studio 360 since it was hatching as a pilot in early 2000, and helped bring it to the airwaves with the launch team in 2001. In her decade at the show, Leital has worked as a producer, editor, reporter, and engineer, traveling as far as Tokyo and Cody, Wyoming for special editions of the program.
She was the sound designer of the Peabody Award-winning episode of American Icons on Moby-Dick and won an AP award for producing Kurt Andersen's interview with musician-poet Patti Smith.
She holds a master's degree in journalism from NYU and teaches a podcasting course at the School of Visual Arts’ Design Criticism program. She occasionally moonlights for other WNYC projects, like the Battle of the Boroughs talent competition, where she does her best Simon Cowell on the judges’ panel. Leital is a native Texan and got her start in radio at KVRX, the student station at the University of Texas at Austin.
Recent Stories
Music
Studio 360
February 07, 2019
Dolly Parton shares her childhood ambitions.
Music
Studio 360
June 28, 2018
What inspires the music of Dirty Projectors?
Arts, Culture & Media
Studio 360
July 02, 2015
As a teenager, Kevin Barnes from the band Of Montreal learned the Rolling Stones’ “Under My Thumb,” and those simple chords changed the course of his life.
Arts, Culture & Media
Studio 360
June 25, 2015
Growing up in South Carolina, Aziz Ansari didn’t think he had a chance at fame. But now, his comedy career has taken him to Madison Square Garden.
Arts, Culture & Media
Studio 360
April 02, 2015
Jane Maas lived the “Mad Men” life, working in a big ad agency in the 1960s and ‘70s. She says the casual misogyny in the show is spot-on.
Arts, Culture & Media
Studio 360
February 26, 2015
The artist Kehinde Wiley wondered why he never saw people who looked like him in museums. His ground-breaking paintings, which borrow from art history, are changing that.
Music
Studio 360
February 24, 2015
Kate Pierson was one of the founding members of the 1970's New Wave band, the B-52s. Now, after nearly 40 years of co-writing songs and singing backup to lead singer Fred Schneider, Pierson is out with her very first solo album.
Arts, Culture & Media
Studio 360
November 14, 2014
Singer-songwriter Afie Jurvanen, who records as Bahamas, romanticizes faraway people and places in his music — including the Bahamas, where he’s never set foot.
Arts, Culture & Media
Studio 360
March 03, 2014
We ended up again with awards that were all expected, except Best Picture -- we were betting on Gravity, as it seemed to have all the perfect elements for the top Academy Award: actio...
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