Audio journalist based in Seattle.

Currently producing sound stories at KUOW.

I’m an audio journalist with over 6 years of experience reporting news and documentary stories, producing daily broadcast programs, and building narrative-driven podcasts. I’ve produced for nationally recognized podcast series and been an integral part of small and large-market newsroom programming. As an all around nerd, I’m constantly producing a variety of audio stories exploring the world around me, and my stories have won regional and national awards for reporting, sound design, and documentary work.

My Credits

  • Soundside (KUOW)

  • Lords of Soccer

  • Small Town Dicks

  • Primed (KUOW)

  • The Tip Off

  • Revolutionary Care

  • The Record (KUOW)

  • Louder Than A Riot

  • Rough Translation

  • The Accidental Educator

Featured Stories

  • Decades later, this photo collection is filling in the corners of Washington's Latino history

    Click Here

  • Pirates, gentrification, and the future of living aboard on Puget Sound

    Click Here

  • A wildfire burned 85% of this Washington town. This is their recovery story.

    Click Here

  • The love story that grew Seattle's 'secret garden'

    Click Here

  • There's a seed shortage in Washington state. What does that mean for our beloved forests?

    Click Here

  • Our local seaweed is disappearing. Could farming help conserve it?

    Click Here

  • For the Methow Valley, wildfire smoke has created a 'fifth season'

    Click Here

  • Unlocking the secrets of Puget Sound sea slugs

    Click Here

  • Seattle shipwreck enthusiasts find possible site of the deadliest wreck in PNW history

    Click Here

  • 'Thousands of stitches, all by hand': a look at Puget Sound's artisan sailmakers

    Click Here

  • Remembering the intellectual clarity of the late Beth Bentley's poetry

    Click Here

  • In Point Roberts, tourists' slow return prompts questions about the peninsula’s future

    Click Here

  • A night on patrol with Seattle's 'real-life superheroes'

    Click Here

Boom Town: A Uranium Story

For 50 years Uravan, Colorado, was a uranium hub of America. Mining “yellowcake” was at the center of everyday life here, where generations of kids grew up playing on the tailings of radioactive ore and residents used mine waste as garden beds and doorstops. But then, residents started getting sick.

Boom Town: A Uranium Story visits a company town that grew alongside America’s nuclear stockpile, then was buried (literally) underground. Through interviews with historians, health experts, environmentalists, and uranium workers past and present, local documentarian Alec Cowan explores how uranium transformed the American West. As the promise of nuclear energy revives the controversial industry today, will the scars of uranium’s past influence the future? Or are some things best left underground?

Boom Town is a 6-part documentary podcast reported and produced by Alec Cowan. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, and read/hear/see more here.

My Work

01

 

02

 

03

 

05

 

Awards and Recognition

2023 PMJA Short Documentary - 1st Place

1st place short documentary award in the Division AA Category. Awarded for "Pirates, Gentrification, and the Future of Living Board Puget Sound."


2023 SPJ Poverty and Homelessness Reporting - 2nd Place

2nd place regional award for Writing, Poverty and Homelessness Reporting, from the Society of Professional Journalists. Awarded for "Pirates, Gentrification, and the Future of Living Board Puget Sound."

2019 PRNDI Best Use of Sound - 1st Place

1st place for use of sound in "Willamette Riverkeeper Continues Survey of Freshwater Mussels To Understand More About River Health."

2018 Snowden Ethics Award

Awarded for exceptional demonstration of ethical considerations as part of a routine series of ethics case studies in the Snowden Internship Program.