Avery Trufelman is a writer and producer on 99% Invisible a podcast about Architecture and Design supported by Radiotopia. She makes audio stories about design and has given talks all over the world about podcasting, design, and storytelling.

Though stressful, Trufelman enjoys covering the elaborate backstories of everything from Airship and Doomsday seed vaults to border walls, sports bras, and interrobangs, the show’s title is a Reference to “the unnoticed architecture and design that shape our world,” 99 percent of which we don’t consider when looking at the 1 percent that manifests.

At the beginning of her career, Trufelman thought she wanted to be an Industrial design er, but decided she’d rather make audio stories about design. She eventually went into making stories about designs via combination of late-night exploits and luck.

After graduation, Trufelman applied to work for NPR four times and was finally hired because of the confluence of her radio knowledge and German studies, working at their only terrestrial station outside of the United States in Berlin.

Then she received a listing for an internship at 99PI in California.

The internship opportunity then became her permanent job.

She is currently a producer on the show 99% Invisible (99PI), based out of beautiful downtown Oakland, California.

In September 2018, she made a 6-part series about Clothing and fashion called "Articles of Interest," which was later declared one of the best podcasts of 2018 by The New Yorker. With over 250 million Download s to date, it is one of the most popular podcasts on iTunes.

Avery double-majored in the College of Letters and German studies at Wesleyan University.

Avery is currently based in beautiful, downtown Oakland, California.

Avery can be reached on twitter via @trufelman.^[1]

Trufelman is a fierce defender of Millennial Pink, her favorite Font is Sweden Sans.