Courtney Stein is an audio producer. Currently, she is a Senior Producer of Opinion Audio for The New York Times.Previously, Stein was an Associate Producer for Radio Rookies, a New York Public Radio initiative that provides teenagers with the tools and training to create radio stories.Stein started her career as a youth worker, directing a youth-run restaurant. She then moved to New York to study social work and community organizing. She decided to work in radio after she heard a Radio Rookies story.She trained at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies and interned at StoryCorps and American RadioWorks, then joined Radio Rookies.