Volunteer: Podcast Series: Infrastructure Set Up

Climate House US is seeking a volunteer with podcasting experience to help establish infrastructure for their podcast series, 'Embodied Climate: The Ambient Body Politic.' The role involves guiding the setup of podcast hosting, storyboarding, and pre/post-production considerations. This initiative aims to blend arts and policy to address climate change creatively. The position is remote, allowing individuals to contribute from anywhere.
This is a volunteer opportunity provided by Taproot Foundation, a nonprofit creating social change through pro bono connections.

We need one individual who has experience with podcasting to help set us up for success as we prepare to launch our inaugural series, "Embodied Climate: The Ambient Body Politic." We'd love someone to help us set up the podcast infrastructure for success. This includes: - walking us through the basics of establishing podcast infrastructure, including hosting and interviewing - discussing a storyboard template we can use as it relates to the first episode and application for future episodes, and - anything else we should think about to ease pre- and post- production. Through the series, we'll convey the Climate House mythos of policy as art form, and explore the sonic and material consequences of governance. Each episode complements our creative suite of experiential arts and cultural programs and be accompanied by further resources, platforming relevant artworks as well as policymakers to enhance the listener experience and help us achieve our goals.

Our organization is all about culture in the front, policy party in the back. By creating an auditory tool that complements our work, we are enhancing the scope of our mission - drawing on arts and cultural tools to better convey the reality of life and opportunity during the era of climate change. The goal is to bring a politics of care online, helping us activate real solutions to global warming while ushering in a future we can all look forward to. Specifically, helping with this project will allow us to get our first episode staged and prepared for EOY distribution, so that we can build from this into 2026 - our first year of programming.

We have a solid vision and have done background research on how to produce a series, but we could use someone who has been through this process to shepherd us through the actual process, as it relates to producing the first introductory episode.

Climate House US ("Climate House") Mission: Climate House is a creative think tank using the arts to illustrate actionable pathways forward—and bring them to life. Our Mythos Embodied Climate: Climate change is not the abstract, technical issue it’s often framed to be–but a universal, ambient one experienced through our bodies and daily lives. CH communicates using universal sensory language, to reintegrate our understanding of climate change as real in the felt sense, and as a core defining issue shaping everything around us. Universal Sensory Language: By speaking this universal language of the senses, we can communicate in a language everyone speaks and understands. This helps reframe climate as an everyone issue–providing an opportunity for the general public to reclaim their agency in understanding it and engaging with its solutions creatively, collaboratively, and meaningfully. Culture-First: Culture is the fabric of daily life. CH uses a broad suite of cultural tools to meet people where they are, designing programming that is audience-tailored and culture-first, recognizing this as the carrier oil for engaging with more complex topics. Show-not-tell: Because seeing is believing, we design programs that show, not tell. All of our programs are seared with a blueprint, grounding solutions on the experiential plane, allowing our audience to feel solutions that are so actionable, they can taste them.