Hallae Khosravi

My name is Hallae — pronounced [huh-lay] — and I’ve been a digital producer with CBC Kids for almost 10 years, these days I’m the department’s go-to YouTube specialist.

My entry into the CBC was as an intern for then-Q when I was completing my master’s in journalism at UBC. After graduating, I bounced around Radio One shows, always working digitally, and mainly with q and The Current.

I used to come home from work, plop down on the couch and channel surf the six stations I could access from my digital antenna. One was the after-school TVO Kids block. It was inspiring and funny and surprising — and it made me realize the kind of work I was meant to be doing.

Luck so had it that CBC Kids was looking for a temporary associate producer at the time, and one day I opened my email to a request that I come in for an interview (and I hadn’t even applied, talk about serendipity!). That short-term contract has turned into years working on and strengthening the CBC Kids brand, with a side dose of directing puppet friends every so often.