Meet The Team - The Mash-Up Americans

Meet the Mash-Up Americans Team

We are your guide to hyphen-America.

The Mash-Up Americans is an award-winning media studio that has been inspiring fresh conversations around multifaceted identities since 2013. We have a popular long-running independent podcast, website and newsletter of the same name. Our original work includes an award-winning fiction podcast, Love & Noraebang and a special series on Grief.

We also partner with select clients, and have produced chart-topping audio and video podcasts and other digital extensions for everyone from Netflix, HBO and Reese Witherspoon to The Meanings of Democracy Lab, carving out a unique expertise turning meaningful ideas into impactful, entertaining content that connects.

Everything we do reflects the kaleidoscope of the Mash-Up American experience and at its core, pursues key questions:

What does it mean to be American today? Who are the Mash-Up leaders, makers, doers, and thinkers shaping culture, business, and how we walk through the world? How do we recenter stories on the voices, audiences, and ideas of The Future?

Who We Are

Rebecca Lehrer / Co-Founder & CEO

Rebecca has spent 20+ years working with Netflix, HBO, Hello Sunshine, WNYC and purpose-driven organizations doing strategy, marketing, and audience development with a deep expertise in audio and podcasting. Her work focuses on creating shared cultural experiences that bring people together. She earned an MBA at the Yale School of Management and a BA in English at Columbia University.

You can find her in her native Los Angeles, where she’s never out of tahini, pupusas, and lemons.

Amy S. Choi / Co-Founder & Editorial Director

Amy has worked for 25 years as a journalist and editor in New York and her work has appeared in Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Marketplace, Women’s Wear Daily, Inc., TED, Elle, and Teen Vogue, among others. Her work focuses on getting people to tell surprising stories. She earned degrees in journalism and poetry writing at Northwestern University.

You can find her in Brooklyn, where her kitchen is always stocked with limes, kimchi, and Spam.