{"689595":{"#nid":"689595","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Voice+ Speaker Series: Mathilde Piard","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs NPR\u2019s Deputy Director for Podcast Strategy \u0026amp; Operations, Mathilde Piard leads a team tasked with helping NPR\u0027s portfolio of podcasts thrive editorially, audience-wise, and business-wise. Her behind-the-scenes work over the past decade at the intersection of audience development, podcasts, and product at NPR has been a critical part of the network\u2019s success in the space.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to podcasts, Piard worked in social media \u2014 she was the first social media manager at Cox Media Group, where she consulted with the company\u2019s newspapers and stations across the country on the best ways to engage their communities, and traveled on behalf of the U.S. Department of State to Ethiopia, Senegal, Chad, and Fiji to train journalists, students, and civil society and business leaders on the medium. Piard will speak about her career, her French upbringing, and the importance of the podcast as a medium.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENPR\u2019s Deputy Director for Podcast Strategy \u0026amp; Operations, Mathilde Piard, will speak about her career and the importance of the growing medium of podcasts internationally.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"NPR\u2019s Deputy Director for Podcast Strategy \u0026 Operations, Mathilde Piard, will speak about her career and the importance of the growing medium of podcasts internationally."}],"uid":"36009","created_gmt":"2026-04-09 20:07:13","changed_gmt":"2026-04-10 16:14:45","author":"cwhittle9","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2026-04-22T17:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2026-04-22T18:15:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2026-04-22T18:15:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2026-04-22 21:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2026-04-22 22:15:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2026-04-22 22:15:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"location":"Scholar\u0027s Event Theatre, Price Gilbert Memorial Library, Room 1280","extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1284","name":"School of Modern Languages"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAndrea Jonsson\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:ajonsson7@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eajonsson7@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}