Trent Kay Maverick
I write, teach, and make radio.
Work Experience
Lake Erie Ink
2024-
Development Manager
Ideastream Public Media
2023-
Community Trainer/Producer
Educational Testing Services (College Board)
2022-
AP Reader, Computer Science A
Kast Media
2021-2023
Lead Producer, Narrative Podcasts
Folio Literary Management
2021
Intern
Center for Talent Development (Northwestern University)
2020-
Computer Science Teacher
The Common (Amherst College)
2020-
Editorial Liaison, Volunteer Reader
John Carroll University / WJCU
2016-2019
Director of Radio Station
Sofatutor
2016-2017
Video Script Writer
Hathaway Brown School
2015-2016
Computer Science Teacher
Code.org
2014-2015
Curriculum Writer
The JET Programme (Japan)
2013-2014
Assistant Language Teacher
The Girls' Middle School
2011-2013
Computer Science & Math Teacher
2010-2011
Curriculum Fellow
Stanford Summer Institutes (EPGY)
2010-2013
Math Instructor
Education
2019
Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, Graduate Certificate in Audio Storytelling
After running John Carroll University’s radio station for three years, I went back to radio school to make my own podcasts. Proud member of the last pre-Covid Salt cohort (Fall ’19), Dream Wizards on the Run. Wish Covid hadn’t sunk everyone’s dreams immediately after, including mine of semi-permanently nosing into the club djing scene at Plague. I miss everything about Portland: the ocean, the oysters, the goths, the cemeteries, the sunrises and sunsets, the buttermilk biscuits at Tandem. Tandem closed for a month right after I left town. Coincidence? I think not.
2010
Stanford University, M.A.T. in Teaching of Mathematics
Graduated from Stanford’s Teacher Education Program specializing in 7-12 Mathematics, though this degree should have been co-granted by KZSU, where I spent roughly 95% of my time. I student-taught AP Calc in the mornings, went to class in the afternoons, homeworked in the evenings, then stayed up most nights at the radio station. My program director never forgave me for taking that Thursday night 12am-3am show slot, and I never clarified the show slot was actually 12am-6am.
2007
Simon’s Rock College of Bard, B.A. in Linguistics
Affectionately known as “The Rock,” the glacial erratic where I buried my first two cats, Rockets and Rad. This is where I wrote my novel-as-bachelor’s-thesis, studied Latin and Hawaiian language, did the “C%nt” bit every year in the Vagina Monologues, and drove two hours to see The Blood Brothers play for fifteen minutes at the Bowery. Great Barrington is now home to roughly 9,000 dispensaries, but back in the day the only jam open past midnight was the Cumby’s slushie machine.