Audrey Buchanan

Audrey has dedicated her career to curating and uplifting diverse voices through intimate interviews, films, digital content and experiential programming.

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Audrey founded a boutique production company called THE WOODS. Throughout her career she has been a creative leader at brands like National Geographic and The Walt Disney Company, and was a founding board member of NPR Generation Listen.

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Notably, Audrey was a former partner at millennial entrepreneurship conference series called Summit. In her tenure there, Audrey served as host and creative director of programming at a leading business and storytelling conference called Summit at Sea, bringing together 3,000 millennial CEO's and company founders and luminaries like Quentin Tarantino, Kendrick Lamar, Norman Lear, Sonia Sanchez, Dolores Huerta, Douglas Miles, Herbie Hancock, Aja Monet and Patrisse Cullors.

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In addition, Audrey partnered with Revolve Impact and the California Endowment to creative direct the statewide Schools Not Prisons music tour in California alongside cultural leaders like Mike de la Rocha, dream hampton, Mystic, Buyepongo, Ty Dolla $ign, Pusha T, John Forte of the Fugees and more.

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In her role as a founding member of NPR's national board of millennial advisors, Audrey helped build NPR Generation Listen from the ground up, pioneering the signature "listening party" model that now guides community education and listener engagement in member stations, markets and living rooms across the nation. To premiere this model, NPR sent her on a 30-day cross-country road tour to nine cities throughout the American South where she acted as the host and facilitator of pop-up salons in places like Marfa, Texas, Birmingham, Alabama, and Oxford, Mississippi. Audrey has also directed and hosted an NPR Generation Listen series called, Living Rooms with Friends.

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