Writer, editor, and producer based in Philly.
My work has been featured in The Washington Post, NPR, The Key from WXPN, The Penn Gazette, uDiscoverMusic, 34th Street Magazine and The Daily Pennsylvanian.
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About.
Samuel Yellowhorse Kesler was born and raised in Arizona. He studied English at the University of Pennsylvania.
While in school, he wrote for The Daily Pennsylvanian, The Key from WXPN, 34th Street Magazine, The Penn Gazette, and the WQHS Radio Blog. He was Programming Assistant Intern at the World Cafe from WXPN for three years, and interned with NPR’s Ask Me Another in 2020. He was also Lead Producer for the podcast Side Effects: A COVID-19 Diary, and a News Assistant at NPR’s All Things Considered. He was also the inaugural Code Switch Fellow in 2021.
Currently, he is an Assistant Producer at Planet Money, and continues to work from home in Philadelphia. If you want to reach him, try telling your smart speaker to “call Sam Kesler,” then wait for the technology to catch up to your request.