Noel Gasca
Producer, Soundside
About
Noel is a producer for KUOW’s midday show Soundside.
Prior to joining Soundside, Noel worked as an online editor/producer with KUOW’s web team. She’s also a proud graduate of KUOW’s RadioActive program.
Noel is an alumna of Emerson College and has interned at NPR member stations WBUR in Boston and WAMU in Washington DC. Originally from Lake Stevens, Washington, Noel is elated to be back in the Pacific Northwest and covering the people and places that make up the state she calls home. Noel has reported on labor and education.
When she’s not working, Noel enjoys perusing Seattle’s used bookstores, discussing the lasting legacy of Selena Quintanilla’s music with anyone who will listen, and spending way too much time fixing up her island on Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English
Pronouns: she/her
Professional Affiliations: National Association of Hispanic Journalists, AIR
Podcasts
Stories
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Arts & Life
Producer picks: Seattle on the stage and in the toy box
In the spirit of thankfulness: Soundside is going to revisit some of our favorite segments from over the last year, and the hardworking producers who make Soundside will be making the picks.
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Food
Want to make a difference for food banks? Cash, not Kraft, may be your answer
Before you go through your own pantry or head to the store to pick up food to donate, Soundside called up some experts to help you make more impactful donations.
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Arts & Life
Author Stephanie Land has struggled as a single mom in college, but don't call her a 'success story'
Soundside interviews author Stephanie Land about her most recent book, "Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education."
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Crime
What's happened so far in the trial of Tacoma officers charged with killing Manny Ellis
For the last six weeks, jurors in Tacoma have listened to testimony in the trial against three Tacoma police officers charged in the death of 33 year-old Manuel Ellis. Soundside guest host Mike Davis caught up with Peter Talbot, a criminal justice reporter for The News Tribune in Tacoma about some key moments in the trial so far.
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Hear it again: What's the story of Richland, Washington? It depends on who you ask.
How does a community define itself? And what happens when a community's foundational story intersects with a violent piece of American history? Those are questions director Irene Lusztig takes on in her new documentary "Richland" - about the community surrounding the Hanford Nuclear site in central Washington, which produced the plutonium used in the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki.
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Education
School consolidation, safety, and budget gaps could cause a shakeup on Seattle school board
Four of the seven seats on Seattle's school board are up for grabs, and only two incumbents are running for re-election, meaning the board will get at least two new members after November 7. KUOW education reporter Sami West is here to explain some of the biggest issues candidates will have to address after the election.
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Health
Washington state leads the nation in fetal alcohol research, yet families still struggle to get care
Since the late 1960s, Washington state has led the nation in fetal alcohol research. And yet today, there's only one treatment center in Washington state for kids ages 3 to 12 diagnosed with a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder or prenatal substance exposure.
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Business
Peter, Peter, pumpkin ... daddy? Meet the 'father' of the pumpkin spice latte
Starbucks' pumpkin spice latte is turning 20 this year. Soundside caught up with the Seattle man considered to be the "father" of the autumnal sensation about the rise of pumpkin spice.
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Business
Convoy promised to revolutionize freight — then it collapsed. What does this mean for Seattle’s startup scene?
It takes a whole lot of trucks to get us the stuff we want. And one Seattle-area company thought it had the secret to handling these logistics. Convoy, a digital freight-and-shipping marketplace with an all-star list of investors, was a darling of the Pacific Northwest startup scene. And last week, to the surprise of hundreds of employees, customers, investors, and market analysts, Convoy suddenly collapsed.
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Politics
North Seattle Council candidates are miles apart on police funding, drug law
In a series of polite but pointed exchanges on key issues facing Seattle, social equity consultant ChrisTiana ObeySumner and retired Judge Cathy Moore staked out strikingly different positions in a high-speed candidate event this week at KUOW.