Assistant Professor Shari Okeke is an award-winning journalist and podcast creator with more than 25 years experience in radio, television and online, primarily at CBC. Since joining the journalism faculty at Toronto Metropolitan University full-time in 2022, she has led her podcasting students t...
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Assistant Professor Shari Okeke is an award-winning journalist and podcast creator with more than 25 years experience in radio, television and online, primarily at CBC. Since joining the journalism faculty at Toronto Metropolitan University full-time in 2022, she has led her podcasting students to produce three seasons of We Met U When... which are available on several listening apps. Students behind Season 3 Episode 5: The Call won a 2025 BEA (Broadcast Education Association) Award of Excellence – the only winning team in the narrative audio category from a Canadian university. Shari Okeke is also a story editor for Turner Classic Movies’ (TCM) award-winning podcast The Plot Thickens Season 4: Here Comes Pam and she created the Peabody-nominated CBC podcast Mic Drop, featuring stories of young people, in their own words. Shari Okeke received the 2025 Dean’s Teaching Award (TFA) for excellence in teaching at The Creative School.
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