Podcaster Profiles: Tania Mohammad: Community Builder

On this edition of Podcaster Profiles, Ear Worthy focuses on Tania Mohammad, a podcast producer, host, and community builder. Tania’s gift to podcasting and to society continues to resonate even after her podcast to celebrate heroes was made nearly four years ago.

On March 12, 2020, five years to the day this article is written, Broadway in New York City shut down due to the COVID pandemic.

Over those five years, history has been revised and reinterpreted as a time of vaccine imperatives and government overreach. What we’ve forgotten in the haze of anti-vax hysteria and conspiracy fantasies is the heroes that revealed their courage during the pandemic. These heroes didn’t have capes or weren’t wealthy or influential. No, these heroes were the transit workers who kept the systems running; the store clerks who gave us access to supplies; the police and fire departments who didn’t shut down, and all those “essential workers” who were there for us when we needed them.

Podcaster Tania Mohammad didn’t forget either, so in 2021, working with CitizenRacecar, the Act Two New York podcast was born.

Tania explains: “It was made as New York reopened after the COVID lockdown. It captures the creativity, diversity and resilience of NYC’s arts, culture, and nightlife scene at that pivotal…