Second muse Īs Director of Storytelling, Ardalan led campaigns for clients such as NASA, USAID, the Australian Aid program, and the World Bank. ![]() White House Presidential Innovation Fellowship Īrdalan (right) at the White House Presidential Fellowship Leadership in October 2018. Together with National Geographic Society, Ardalan's audio team has also piloted Soundbank, a database featuring crowdsourced sounds of nature from explorers and photographers around the world. ![]() As National Geographic's executive producer of audio, she oversees the award-winning podcast series Overheard, as well as the limited series Into the Depths, which followed a group of Black divers dedicated to finding and documenting some of the thousand slave ships that wrecked in the Atlantic Ocean during the transatlantic slave trade. National Geographic Īrdalan joined National Geographic in August 2020. She produced award-winning cultural and news stories on health and environmental concerns in Los Alamos for which she won first place in documentaries from the Associated Press in New Mexico. A year later, she made the switch to radio as a reporter at KUNM-FM in Albuquerque. Career Īrdalan's career in American media began in 1991 at KOAT-TV in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is the author of two books, My Name is Iran and The Persian Square. In May 2014, she was the recipient of an Ellis Island Medal of Honor, for individual achievement and for promoting cultural unity. ĭavar Ardalan has been recognized with a NASA Team Leadership award for Space Apps, two NABJ Awards, a Gracie Award from the American Women in Radio and Television and a shout-out in the comic strip Zippy. Īrdalan has also served as Managing Editor at Hanson Robotics, and is a member of the AI for Good Brain Trust, composed of an international panel of innovators and thinkers from industry, United Nations (UN) agencies, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), civil society, the UN's member states, academia, start-ups, media and the arts who assist in identifying initiatives aimed at using AI to advance the UN SDGs. In April 2021, Project Voice awarded IVOW the Google Developer of the Year and a medal for Diversity and Inclusion. At NPR, her real-time storytelling campaigns cultivated thought leaders across platforms and reached millions on Twitter and Facebook.įrom 2018 to 2022, Ardalan was the founder and chief storytelling officer at IVOW (Intelligent Voices of Wisdom), which champions culturally conscious data strategies across multiple industries, from academia to development and enterprise. ![]() Ardalan is an advocate for cross-platform storytelling. She was also a long-time journalist at NPR News, where she helped shape the news shows Weekend Edition and Morning Edition, and was responsible for decisions that required elaborate coordination such as live broadcasts from Baghdad, Kabul, and New Orleans. Prior to this, she was deputy director of the White House Presidential Innovation Fellowship Program in Washington, D.C. Known as Davar Ardalan, she is the Executive Producer of Audio at National Geographic and has served as co-chair of the Cultural Heritage and AI track at ITU's AI for Good. Iran Davar Ardalan (born April 1, 1964) is a tech entrepreneur, journalist, and author based in Washington, D.C. Davar Ardalan pictured with IVOW team in Geneva, Switzerland
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