Brandi Fullwood
Senior Producer
About
Brandi Fullwood is a senior producer at KUOW. She currently works in Audioshop on special projects. She joined KUOW in 2019 as a producer on The Record and was promoted to her current position in 2021. She was also part of the team that launched the new iteration of the midday show Soundside. She has produced a range of stories from dinosaur experts to misinformation in the 2020 election.
Previously, Brandi worked for The World, a co-production of the BBC World Service. She focused on tech, culture, and environment stories. Brandi also led a collaborative project for The World and Smithsonian Folkways, creating pieces and reporting on music, culture, and communities like this and this and this.
Brandi has written and produced for NPR Music and Noisey Music, and has reported for the New Haven Independent. She grew a love for radio through Middlebury College radio station’s WRMC 91.1 FM.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English
Podcasts
Stories
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Books: Mike Curato Is A Main Character
This week we’re hitting the books with author and illustrator Mike Curato to discuss Gaysians, his debut adult graphic novel, about a queer Asian friend group becoming a chosen family in 2003 Seattle. And we'll hear about why Mike chose Queer/Bar in Seattle for his author event on June 17th instead of a bookstore.
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What the eruption of Mount St. Helens reveals about kite-flying spiders
May 18, 2025, marks the 45th anniversary of Mount St. Helens' eruption — a catastrophic event that transformed the landscape and killed 57 people. From this devastation emerged an incredible scientific calculation about millions of spiders traveling through the sky.
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Books: Kevin Kwan Wants To Make You Laugh
This week we’re hitting the books with Crazy Rich Asians author Kevin Kwan. The internationally-best selling author rips open the world of the wealthy and indulges us in some behind the scenes bits about his latest book Lies and Wedding
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Tooth be told: Sea otters have a powerful bite
Sea otters are incredible marine wrestlers, packing some serious strength under all that fluff.
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From blubber to bone: How a whale decomposes on land
The story of the Lobby Whale at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.
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Meet the beetles! These rice-sized workers clean up specimens at Seattle’s Burke Museum
Very few Burke Museum visitors realize that thousands of secret workers are helping make the museum's animal specimen collection. No, it’s not a secret organization of janitors. But this team also cleans up expertly.
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The Mysterious Twilight Zone Whale
A whale with a bird-like beak lives 3,000 feet underwater where the pressure would crush humans. When one washed ashore, scientists finally had a chance to study how this mysterious giant survives the deep-sea.
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A Spider Space Oddity!
Spiders have been floating through the air like tiny astronauts for millions of years, but scientists never knew how many until a volcano's eruption changed everything! Check out the Burke Museum's collection of a super special spider species that proved they could survive against incredible odds.
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Howl you doing? City Coyotes Tell All
Enough with the rumors! Get up-close with the specimens of the most cunning city celebrity --coyotes!! Untangle the fact from the fiction
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Hummingbirds: Swords for Sugar!?
These aren't just cutesy wootsy sugar-loving birds - they are tiny gladiators! Join us at Seattle's Burke Museum where high-speed cameras and 3D printed beaks reveal the secret combat skills of Hummingbirds.
