Mija Podcast is the first of its kind, delivering dramatized non-fiction stories about daughters of immigrants and their countries’ stories as told through their family members, young and old, created by Studio Ochenta. Led by Lory Martinez, Studio Ochenta is a Paris-based audio production studio that is dedicated to telling stories in different languages across the podcast medium. Mija’s most recent season, “Binti”, tells the story of Rana Abdelhamid, New York-based community organizer and founder of nonprofit Malikah, and her family from Alexandria. Who are you and what do you do? Lory Martinez: I’m Lory Martinez, the founder of Studio Ochenta and the creative director behind Mija podcast, which is a show about exploring the family histories of immigrant families. The third season is called Binti podcast and it explores an Egyptian British American family. Zeina AbouelMakarem: I’m Zeina, I joined Ochenta in March when I started working on Mija on the translation and marketing, and I’m the assistant producer. How did Mija come to be? Martinez: Mija means my daughter in Spanish and it started with my own immigration story. I told the story of my Colombian American family…
