Isabel Catalina Hibbard is an award-winning podcast producer based in Boston.
Isabel has worked as a producer with the PRX Production Unit since its 2020 founding. She’s launched podcasts in collaboration with WGBH, including Nova Now and Detours, and co-produced The Big Dig, a nine-part series on the most expensive highway infrastructure project in US history from GBH News. The Big Dig went on to win a 2024 Peabody Award.
Isabel is also a producer for Unseen Upside: Investments Beyond Their Returns by Cambridge Associates, 2024 recipient of the International Women’s Podcast Award for Moment of Visionary Leadership and Best Branded Podcast honoree by the 28th Annual Webby Awards.
Outside of production work, Isabel has taught classes on podcasting for Cambridge Community Television and co-facilitated the PRX Podcast Garage's orientation to podcasting. Before joining PRX, Isabel was a Spanish <> English interpreter and translator. During her internship at the PRX Podcast Garage in Boston, she created the Listening to Language event series to highlight multilingual media makers and Language Justice in podcasting.