Daniel Kisslinger is a Chicago-based host and producer who creates dialogue-based media showcasing the stories, voices, and artworks of communities challenging power, reconfiguring public life, and reimagining our world. He is the Cohost and Co-Executive Producer of AirGo, a weekly podcast and cultural media hub in Chicago that reshapes the culture of the city and beyond for the more liberatory and creative. In addition to his AirGo work, Daniel edits CTU Speaks!, a podcast produced by the Chicago Teachers Union, and also works as a consultant helping organizations, individuals, and companies build humanizing, subject-to-subject podcasts from scratch.

A twice Webby-nominated podcast producer, Daniel has also been named an Artist Fellow as part of the UIC Social Justice Initiative’s Portal Project, as well as a Power of Cash Narrative Change Fellow by Economic Security of Illinois. His words have been featured in NY Times bestseller We Do This ‘Til We Free Us and The New Normal, a salon journal published by The Hoodoisie.

Daniel He has served as the Executive Producer of VS, a Webby-nominated Poetry Foundation podcast hosted by poets Danez Smith and Franny Choi, and as a contributor and producer of The Hoodoisie, a biweekly block-optic news talk show hosted by Ricardo Gamboa. He was previously the host and Executive Producer of Erasing Boundaries, a weekly interview show on KDIC 88.5FM and online folio featuring conversations with artists who strive to erase musical and cultural boundaries, including hip hop stars Kendrick Lamar, Pete Rock, Chance the Rapper, and many others. He was also Station Manager of KDIC 88.5FM, the Grinnell College radio station. A native New Yorker, he got his start on the air as an intern at WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show.