Catherine Jaffee
Founder and Producer, House of Pod
Living in Durango, United States
Catherine (Cat) Jaffee is an audio producer and the founder of House of Pod, where she has shepherded over 50 podcast series into existence and produced over 1,000 podcast episodes for productions like Radiolab, Outside, National Geographic Society, PRX, PBS, Gimlet, SAPIENS Magazine, and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.
While undergoing cancer treatment in 2020, she wrote and directed Guardians of the River, a podcast about one of Africa’s most wild water systems and the people who protect it. This show won best narrative podcast of 2021 at the Tribeca Film Festival and the Jackson Wild Film Festival. In 2024 she returned to Tribeca with the series Back to the Water, which she wrote and produced for the team behind My Octopus Teacher. It also won best non-fiction independent podcast.
For the 2024-2025 academic year, she is a Ted Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism, exploring how overlapping biomedical and bioengineered solutions apply to ecosystems and human bodies.
Since 2017 Cat has designed, led, and taught at podcast incubators, fellowship programs, semester-long courses, and community workshops for hundreds of students from across the globe for institutions such as the Templeton Foundation, Tribal Media, SAPIENS magazine, Arts & Society Redline Program, the Denver School of the Arts, and many more. Before working in audio journalism,
Cat was an Environmental Digital Organizer for Fossil Free and 350.org, as well as a Communication Director for Unreasonable and Re:Vision. She also organized honey-tasting trekking cooperatives in Eastern Turkey and the South Caucasus, winning recognition as a model Black Sea Development project in 2013.
Cat is a two-time National Geographic grantee, a Fulbright scholar, a Luce scholar, and a proud ultra-bikepacking dabbler. Most of the time, she lives in Durango, Colorado with her two dogs Maya and Mizu.
You can check out her personal website here.
