Thomas Lu is a gay, Vietnamese-American journalist, audio producer, and editor based in Washington, DC. He was most recently producing and editing for NPR, where he co-founded NPR's first disability and accessibility employee resource group. He is immediately available for full-time positions, collaborations, or freelance work.

He has worked on stories ranging from author interviews with disability rights activists to the physics of rainbows to why some people enjoy spicy foods.

As a producer for Hidden Brain, Thomas explored the contradictions of human behavior—producing and sound-designing episodes such as the importance of the human voice and our hidden influence on others. He contributed to the episode “The Ventilator,” which earned a 2020 Edward R. Murrow award.

He is currently a freelance supervising producer (editor/mentor) for Australia’s All The Best Radio. Thomas has contributed to KUOW, HBO, Life Kit, Short Wave, Code Switch, It’s Been A Minute, How I Built This, Pop Culture Happy Hour,  All Things Considered, TED Radio Hour, and StoryCorps.

Thomas is a 2023 graduate of Neon Hum Media’s Editors’ Bootcamp and a 2020 AIR New Voices Scholar. With the goal of escaping the Atlanta heat, he attended Middlebury College in Vermont and United World College-USA in the mountains of New Mexico. Aside from audio, he enjoys watching The Golden Girls, running (slowly), and teaching himself film photography.

Currently Available for podcast consulting, audio producing, story editing, and reporting. Wanna work together? Send me a note.