Dmae Roberts
Oregon
USA Rockefeller Fellow, Media

Dmae Roberts (Portland) is a an award-winning independent radio artist and writer who has written and produced more than 400 audio art pieces and documentaries for NPR and PRI programs. Her work is often autobiographical or about cross-cultural peoples and is informed by her biracial identity and her experiences growing up in the only interracial family in a small town in rural Oregon. Her Peabody award-winning documentary Mei Mei, a Daughter’s Song, is a harrowing account of her mother’s childhood in Taiwan during WWII. Roberts has most recently completed the eight-hour Crossing East, the first radio series on Asian American history which aired on more than 210 public radio stations around the country. She is the executive producer of MediaRites, a nonprofit organization dedicated to multicultural arts production in radio, theater, and educational outreach.

Portrait photo courtesy Julie Keefe
Mei Mei, a Daughter's Song, 1989, Dmae Roberts with parents, Chu-Yin and Bobby Roberts; photo courtesy the artist