Aida Holly-Nambi
Aida Holly-Nambi is the co-founder of the podcast production company, Fathom Sirens, established in East Africa and the UK. A Ugandan born and raised in Kenya, Aida received a dual PhD in Drama and Humanities from Stanford University in California in 2013, where she won the Geballe Dissertation Prize fellowship for her work. Today, Aida sits on the board of the National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission in Kenya, and is also part of the Black Queer Travel Group steering Committee in the U.K. She is a story editor across mediums, including film, text, audio, and virtual reality. Aida was a story developer for the Venice Biennale College Cinema Virtual Reality program from 2019 through to 2021. She was a group leader for the Venice Biennale College Cinema film program in 2020, 2022 and will reprieve this role in 2023.
From 2017 to 2020, Aida was the Director of Arts and Culture for the Africa-wide LGBT digital media organization, None on Record, where she produced the award-winning podcast AfroQueer. Prior to that, Aida was an Outreach Director for the Doc Society Foundation in London; an Outreach Director for Docubox: The East African Documentary Film Fund; and the Artistic Director of Maisha Garden in Uganda. She was also a member of the International Jury for the One World Film Festival in Prague.
Maeve Frances
Maeve is a podcast producer, editor and all round audiophile based in Nairobi, Kenya. From 2018 to September 2020 she was a senior producer on the podcast AfroQueer, a documentary podcast produced by the Africa-wide LGBTQ+ digital media organization None on Record. She was also worked on the incubation of new podcasts set to release in 2021 from Ghana, South Africa and Kenya. She produces two podcasts for the International Crisis Group. The Horn tells the most urgent stories from Eastern Africa to policy makers across Africa and in Washington D.C. Hold Your Fire! delves into crises’ around the world with an on-the-ground perspective. Maeve has just completed production on the upcoming podcast show A Palace for the People, by two Kenyan literary innovators.
Maeve is an International Women’s Media Foundation connect fellow. Previously, as an audio journalist, she covered migration and conflict in the Middle East and South East Asia for outlets like BBC, ABC, PRI, CBC among others.