Michelle Baker is a recent graduate from the Reynolds School of Journalism who has a passion for audio and podcasting. She recently attended Werk It: A Women’s Podcast Festival. The L.A. event had successful women in the audio industry talk about the importance of including women and other minorities in audio, trends and tips for getting started and how to make money in the podcasting realm. Those quoted include Julia Turner @juliaturner, Deputy Managing Editor of the LA Times and Jenna Weiss-Berman @WBJenna, the Co-Founder of Pineapple Street Media. Take a listen to this episode of the Reynolds Hotbox hosted by Lucia Starbuck to hear the audio postcard Baker made about her experience at the podcast festival and why audio is her favorite medium. “I think that like from an interviewer's point of view, I think people are less self-conscious in front of a microphone rather than a camera," she said. "People are really able to be themselves and kind of, you know, after a few minutes they kind of just let loose and they're like, 'Oh, it's just me and you having a conversation.' I think that just because audio is so accessible and you can, you know, you don't have to sit down and like watch a documentary, you can just be driving in your car and hear this story.” Baker is an audio producer and has done freelance editing, created a non-narrated story about an immigrant for NPR’s Next Generation Boot Camp and filmed a documentary about a community in Tijuana, Mexico.