Laura Garbes is a doctoral student in sociology at Brown University interested in the intersection of race, organizations & cultural production. She has spent the past summer working with National Public Radio on a project uncovering a set of 100 programs from the NPR archive that have recently been digitized. She will continue her research on National Public Radio as she explores what defines a professional voice, whether such a voice is racialized, and how racialization of voice occurs. Her public scholarship includes advocacy for the preservation and accessibility of sound archives to understand phenomena like this particular social dynamic she is researching at present.