I’m a Philadelphia-based podcast and documentary film producer. I started out taking photographs, but quickly discovered I cared most about the stories behind them. A decade and a half later I’m a producer of all kinds of stories: mostly podcasts, some documentary film, all nonfiction, and a lot of science and history.

In 2013 I co-directed and produced the award-winning documentary film, A Confused War, about how Richmond, California, a city across the bay from San Francisco, went from having one of the highest murder rates in the country to one of the lowest. They did it by completely reforming the police department—and by paying shooters to stop shooting.

In 2016 I directed the award-winning film Death and Taxidermy, which combined animations and live-action film to tell the long history of this scientific and artistic obsession.

My films have screened at festivals throughout the United States and the United Kingdom. My work has been published by Al Jazeera, Grist.org, and High Country News. My radio stories have aired on WBUR’s Here & Now, WHYY’s The Pulse, KALW’s Crosscurrents, and other public radio stations throughout the United States.

I currently lead a team that produces documentary films and videos and two history of science podcasts (Distillations and The Disappearing Spoon) for the Science History Institute in Philadelphia. Our latest work is a 10-episode Distillations podcast series about the historical roots and persistent legacies of racism in science and medicine. It’s called Innate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race, and we’re trying to get medical students and professionals to listen to it so they can understand the history and help end this terrible legacy.

-Mariel (née Waloff) Carr.

Contact me at marielantoniacarr [at] gmail [dot] com.