About

Daniel Kisslinger is a Chicago-based host and producer who creates dialogue-based media showcasing the stories, voices, and artworks of communities challenging power, reconfiguring public life, and reimagining our world. He is the Co-Founder of Respair Production & Media, and is the Co-Creator of AirGo, a weekly podcast in Chicago that reshapes culture for the more liberatory and creative.

A twice Webby-nominated podcast producer, Daniel has also been named an Artist Fellow as part of the UIC Social Justice Initiative’s Portal Project, as well as a Power of Cash Narrative Change Fellow by Economic Security of Illinois. His words have been featured in NY Times bestseller We Do This ‘Til We Free Us and The New Normal, a salon journal published by The Hoodoisie. Daniel has been the Executive Producer of the Poetry Foundation’s acclaimed VS podcast, and editor of CTU Speaks!, a podcast produced by the Chicago Teachers Union. He also works as a consultant helping organizations, individuals, and companies build humanizing, subject-to-subject podcasts from scratch.

He got his start as the host and Executive Producer of Erasing Boundaries, a weekly interview show on KDIC 88.5FM and online folio featuring conversations with artists who strive to erase musical and cultural boundaries, including hip hop stars Kendrick Lamar, Pete Rock, Chance the Rapper, and many others. He was also Station Manager of KDIC 88.5FM, the Grinnell College radio station. A native New Yorker, he first was on-air as an intern at WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show.

Hard Skills

• audio production & editing

• copy editing and proofreading

• sound engineering and recording

• production management

• booking and advance

• social media content creation

• website CMS

• djing

• music supervision