Paola Cossermelli Messina is Associate Producer and Post-Production Manager of Status / الوضع Audio Magazine. As an audio producer and writer born in Brazil, her research interests fall at the intersections between music, culture and gender in the Middle East. She previously worked as a producer and reporter at a radio station in her home country.
Paola has a B.A. in Music and Writing from Sarah Lawrence College and an M.A. in Media Studies from The New School. She was awarded the Middle East Studies Assocation's Graduate Student Paper Prize for her research on Iranian women musicians. Her written works have been published by Reorient, Mashallah News and O Estado de São Paulo newspaper. She has also been credited as a sound designer and editor in several short narrative and documentary films.
Twitter: @ICanHearPaola
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Paola has a B.A. in Music and Writing from Sarah Lawrence College and an M.A. in Media Studies from The New School. She was awarded the Middle East Studies Assocation's Graduate Student Paper Prize for her research on Iranian women musicians. Her written works have been published by Reorient, Mashallah News and O Estado de São Paulo newspaper. She has also been credited as a sound designer and editor in several short narrative and documentary films.
Twitter: @ICanHearPaola