Natalie Dusek, M.A.



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Education
Simon Fraser University September 2023-October 2025 
Vancouver, BC, Canada 
M.A. in Communications 
Supervisor: Dr. Milena Droumeva 

Beloit College
Beloit, Wisconsin, USA August 2015-May 2019 
B.A. in Critical Identity Studies, Environmental Studies and minors in Music and Biology, Cumulative GPA 3.6 (Magna Cum Laude). 


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University Service
Podcast Research & Management, 2025

Graduate Research Assistant, 2023-2025

Graduate Teaching Assistant, 2023-2025

Commmunity & Communications Coordinator, 2022-2023

Assistant Sound Engineer, 2021-2022

Grant Writer, 2021-2022


Communications Graduate Student Caucus, 2023-2025
- Co-Chair
- Secretary

Associate Editor, Stream: Interdisciplinary Journal of Communications, 2023-2025 


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Professional Projects
-International Association of Business Communicators

-Association of Independents in Radio (AIR) 

-Music4Pain Research Network 

-Effective Network to Advance Scientific Evidence Related to Mechanisms of Music-Based Interventions for Pain and Support Collaborative Efforts (ENSEMBLE) Research Network 

-Member of Canadian Association for Sound Ecology (CASE) 


Shoreline Swell Adjudication Committee Member 2023, 2025 
Salt Lake Arts Council



Conference Presentations
Conduits Graduate Conference 2025 
Simon Fraser University, School of Communications 
Presentation Title: “Archive of the Heart” 

Intellectual Currents
Simon Fraser University, School of Communications 2024 
Presentation of Preliminary Thesis Research 

Sounds of De/Composition 2024 
New York University, Department of Music 
Presentation Title: Deteriorating Materialities: Technology, Failure and Queer Futurities in “The Disintegration Loops” 





Last Updated 25.11.23
Selected Work





1. Podcasting/Audio
Prescription for Better Access Podcast
Podcast Research & Management

Amplify Podcast Network: Amplified, an Audio Blog
Podcast Producer

Thinking Bodies Podcast
Production Consultant

Speakable Podcast
Podcast Producer

Sound Design for Husbandry (2024, Mitchell Art Gallery) by Cait McKinney and Hazel Meyer





2. Creative Direction
i am holding, M.A. Project, June 2025


In association with “Affective Listening, Affective Climate: Practices of Sonic Resistance and Collective Feeling in the Climate Crisis” completed Summer 2025




2. Video
Creative video production






3. Bumper Stickers    

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4. Writing
- Substack (coming soon)
- “Affective Listening, Affective Climate: Practices of Sonic Resistance and Collective Feeling in the Climate Crisis” completed Summer 2025
- Copeland, S., McGregor, H. & Dusek, N. (2024). The Amplify Manifesto: Rewind, Replay, Reflect. RadioDoc Review, 9(1). https://ro.uow.edu.au/rdr/vol9/iss1/10





5. Graphics