Anjuli Joshi Brekke earned her Ph.D. in Communication at the University of Washington.

Her scholarship focuses on the potential and politics of listening and interweaves research from a number of traditions including rhetorical studies, cultural studies, and sound studies. Her work explores the power and limitations of sharing personal narratives, both online and offline, to facilitate listening across difference.

For her dissertation, she proposed and led an oral history and digital storytelling project to record and share stories of racial discrimination and resistance from the larger Seattle area.

She has published multiple works on podcasting, radical listening, and race, and she teaches courses in community-based podcasting and digital storytelling.