Robyn Semien

Robyn is an award winning journalist and audio producer. Before founding Placement Theory, Semien spent 15 years at This American Life, where she created some of the program’s most celebrated and ambitious episodes, including listener favorite 129 Cars, the Harper High School series, which drew the attention of Barack and Michelle Obama, Talking While Black, Before the Next One, and Anatomy of Doubt, which inspired the Netflix limited series Unbelievable. Semien has produced a live show starring Lin-Manuel Miranda and Anthony Ramos, and directed audio stories with Connie Britton, Zoe Winters and Grace Gummer. She's won two Peabody Awards, two duPont Awards and an Emmy for her work on This American Life’s TV series for Showtime.