Homelands board president Ruxandra (Rux) Guidi has been elected to the board of the influential Association of Independents in Radio (AIR).
Founded in 1988, AIR is a membership organization of more than 1,500 journalists, podcasters, story editors, audio producers, documentarians, engineers, sound designers, and media entrepreneurs around the world.
AIR provides mentorship, training, tools, and peer support, and develops resources for members and the audio industry, including a Guide to Fair Practice, sample contracts, and rates guides that advance fairness and equity across the industry. Its mentorship programs include New Voices, which forges connections and career paths for emerging talent and underrepresented voices in public media and narrative audio, and SoundPath, a digital training platform.
Ruxandra Guidi has been telling stories for more than two decades. In addition to being president of the board of Homelands Productions, she is a columnist for the 54-year-old nonprofit magazine High Country News. She also serves on the board of El Tímpano, a local reporting lab amplifying the voices of Oakland’s Latino and Mayan immigrants. As a former assistant professor of practice and assistant director of the Bilingual Journalism Program at the University of Arizona’s School of Journalism, Rux advised students and taught audio storytelling, feature writing and freelancing for years.
Currently, she is an independent editor and contributor to various podcasts and magazines, and she is working on her first novel. In 2018, she was awarded the Susan Tifft Fellowship for women in documentary and journalism by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, and in 2023, she won a Soros Equality Fellowship to produce the anthology podcast, Happy Forgetting, about racial justice in America. Rux is a native of Caracas, Venezuela, currently based in Tucson, Arizona.