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Radio Workshop trains youth across Africa to make radio and podcasts. It supports them with training, production tools, and mentoring so that their reporting is fact-based, engaging, and responsive to the needs and concerns of their listeners.

Founded in 2006 as the Children’s Radio Foundation, it has trained over 5,000 youth reporters at more than 100 radio stations in 10 countries in Africa, reaching up to 9 million listeners weekly.

Attending the Μedia Village will be:

• Naomi Grewan, Communications Manager and an Associate Producer at Radio Workshop

Naomi is communications manager and an associate producer at Radio Workshop. Before joining the Radio Workshop team, Naomi was a journalism student at Rhodes University in South Africa. Since 2022 Naomi has been in charge of all things distribution and audience for the Radio Workshop podcast. When she's not reading the data, Naomi's working on stories. So far, she's produced three stories and counting.

• Lesedi Mogoadhle, Editor of the Radio Workshop

Lesedi is the Editor and Host of the Radio Workshop podcast. She worked with the organisation for several years training youth in radio production across Africa. She trained Radio Workshop’s first podcast project with LGBTI+ activists and organizations in Zimbabwe, Zambia and South Africa.

Today, she continues to design curriculum, train and mentor young journalists in podcasting and storytelling. Lesedi harnessed her storytelling skills in TV and Film, where she worked for over 15 years in the industry. She received her MA in documentary filmmaking from Sussex University in the UK. She also works as a Coach with a qualification in Integral Coaching from UCT Graduate School Of Business.

• Dhashen Moodley, Senior Producer at Radio Workshop

Dhashen is senior podcast producer at Radio Workshop. Previously, he spent 12 years working his way through nearly every newsroom position on public radio and television in South Africa, including news anchor, reporter, and editor. As a freelancer, he has contributed to New York Times, NPR, BBC, Voice of America, Foreign Policy, Vanity Fair, Vice, and Channel 4 News.

Dhashen is a past fellow of the United Nations RAF Journalism Program, International Visitor Leadership Program, the Bloomberg Media Initiative in Africa, the Netherlands Fellowship Program, and Earth Journalism Network. His work has been recognised with awards from the International Documentary Association and One World Media Awards.