Kara Oehler is a documentary artist and radio producer.
Oehler's radio work has aired around the world, and her interactive storytelling projects have been exhibited at MoMA, SFMoMA and other venues. She is the Co-Founder of Mapping Main Street, a podcast and traveling exhibition documenting all 10,000+ streets named Main Street in the United States; GoPop, an app for juxtaposing GIFs, photos and videos acquired by Buzzfeed in 2015; Zeega, an interactive storytelling platform; metaLAB a Harvard-based research center focused on network culture; and the UnionDocs Collaborative Studio, an innovative model for documentary arts education and production.
Oehler was a Film Study Center Fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and a Rockefeller Fellow with United States Artists. She received her B.S. in Sociology from Northern Arizona University.