Barbara Dundon
Barbara Dundon is an independent audio producer, a vocation she has followed since leaving a longtime career in nonprofit management in 2012.
Barbara’s attraction to audio stemmed from a 2008 experience she shared with her husband Jack. Shortly after her mother’s death, they signed up on-line to record stories about Barbara’s recently deceased mother in a “story booth” in Manhattan as part of StoryCorps – a national oral histories project. One of the stories they told was broadcast on NPR on Mother’s Day and featured in a collection of stories in David Isay’s book Mom – A Celebration of Mothers from StoryCorps.
“The StoryCorps experience was sacramental,” Barbara remembers. “Sitting in that soundproof trailer for 50 minutes without interruption and having our recollections of Mum recorded professionally by an almost invisible sound engineer moved us both to tears. It is rare to have one’s story treated with such profound respect.”
She is a member of AIR – Association for Independent Radio Producers – and of AIR’s Philadelphia Listening Group, local radio producers who meet monthly to critique each other’s work. In the summer of 2012 she produced a series of audio postcards for the Philadelphia Parks Alliance around which the organization is building an advocacy campaign. She is currently conducting a multi-year stories project for The Morris Arboretum – a historic public garden and educational institution.
Barbara chaired the search committee for the new rector at the Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, in Philadelphia, and currently serves on the vestry, sings in the choir, teaches Sunday School and produces Advent and Lenten podcasts for the church.
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