Lee Wade
Editor and Community Audio ProducerLee Wade is the Editor and Community Audio Producer for the Eichelberger Center for Community Voices at WYSO, and a 2026 Dayton Democracy Fellow for the Charles F. Kettering Foundation. Wade was a 2025 Public Media Journalists Association Opening Doors Fellow — one of ten BIPOC journalism students selected nationwide for the competitive program. He created Translucent, a WYSO series amplifying transgender voices and stories of identity in Ohio.
Wade is a graduate of Antioch College, where he studied Interdisciplinary Arts and Creative Practice with a focus on audio journalism. He has contributed to WYSO Youth Radio and The Race Project.
Email: lwade@wyso.org
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Conscious Connect, a Springfield nonprofit founded by Dr. Karlos Marshall and Moses Mbeseha, celebrates distributing 100,000 free books to children and families across the Miami Valley. -
NCCJ's Pride Rocks returns to Levitt Pavilion in Dayton on May 16 for a free, family-friendly festival focused on LGBTQ+ suicide prevention. -
More than a decade after winning marriage equality at the Supreme Court, Jim Obergefell says the country is moving in the wrong direction on LGBTQ rights. -
For the last episode of the season, Translucent host Lee Wade talks to Ellie Krug, the transgender host of The Illegal Trans Woman in the Twin Cities. -
Host Lee Wade highlights TransOhio, an Ohio-based nonprofit working statewide to support the rights and visibility of trans and gender-diverse people. -
Translucent host Lee Wade talks with a physician about what happens when gender-affirming care is interrupted or denied, and why starting and stopping treatment can do real harm. -
Translucent host Lee Wade talks to Gage Gatlyn, co-founder of a local grassroots group turning support into action for transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming people. -
In this episode of Translucent, Lee Wade talks with a local speech therapist about the importance of voice in transgender lives. -
Translucent host Lee Wade talks to Iden Crockett, a trans woman who came out in her early 40s while married, raising kids, and working as a firefighter. -
A Yellow Springs documentary is giving a local trans woman the chance to tell her own story, in her own words. The film is screening on Transgender Day of Visibility.
