Kate Ellis is a show producer and editor at The World. On most days she oversees production of the broadcast, assigning stories and coordinating staff from across the globe. She also directs The World’s YouTube channel, which she helped launch in 2025, and leads other strategic and editorial initiatives. She joined The World as an assignment editor in 2020. Before then Kate reported extensively on the history of racial inequality and fight for civil rights in the US. She has produced and reported numerous public radio documentaries and podcasts, and garnered a host of awards, including the ABA’s Silver Gavel and the RTDNA/UNITY Award. These include the podcast and radio series “Order 9066,” about the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, and “Soldiers for Peace,” a documentary about the anti-war movement led by Vietnam War soldiers and veterans in the 1960s. Kate has co-edited two anthologies of great African American speeches, along with two critically acclaimed oral history collections (“Free All Along: The Robert Penn Warren Civil Rights Interviews” and “After the Fall: New Yorkers Remember September 2001 and the Years that Followed”). Kate holds a PhD in anthropology from Columbia University and a bachelor’s in psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She fell in love with public radio while she was a college DJ at KZSC in Santa Cruz. She’ll never walk away from a dance party.