Ronald Young Jr.

Host/Audio Producer/Storyteller

Ronald Young Jr. is an audio producer, host, and storyteller, based in Alexandria, VA. He is the host of the critically acclaimed podcast Weight For It, which was an official Tribeca Selection in 2023 as well as receiving accolades from Vulture, Vogue, and The New York Times. Weight For It also received a historic three Podcast Academy Awards in 2024 including Best Society and Culture Podcast, Best Indie Podcast and Best Indie Podcast Host.
Ronald is also an avid pop-culture enthusiast, a regular contributor to NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour, and the host of the television and film review podcast Leaving the Theater and the podcast Pop Culture Debate Club from Lemonada and BBC. In the past He has hosted shows such as Pushkin’s Solvable, HBO Docs Club, from Pineapple Street Studios, and Slate’s Working podcast. Selected as Vulture Magazine podcaster to watch, 2023, he is passionate about social justice and equity and helped to tell historical and present accounts of black folks throughout American history with his work on Seizing Freedom from VPM, and Black History Year from Pushblack.