John Biewen is an audio documentary maker based at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, where he hosts and produces the Scene on Radio podcast. 

Alongside his scholarship and teaching, Chenjerai Kumanyika specializes in using narrative non-fiction audio journalism to critique the ideology of American historical myths about issues such as race, the Civil War, and policing. 

Alex Sujong Laughlin is a producer and co-owner at Defector Media where she makes the shows Try Hard and Only If You Get Caught. She is the co-creator of the podcast Normal Gossip. 

Maria Garcia is the Executive Editor of Futuro Studios, where she oversees long-form narrative podcasts. She is also the host and creator of the critically acclaimed podcast, “Anything for Selena”.

Brett Myers is the executive producer at Reveal. His work has received more than 20 national honors, including a George Foster Peabody Award, a George Polk Award, and eight Edward R. Murrow Awards, amongst others. 

Al Letson is the Peabody Award-winning host of Reveal. 

 He has hosted the podcast Errthang; wrote for several major TV or streaming shows, including AMC’s Moonhaven and AppleTV’s Monarch; and is currently writing a comic for DC Comics (he loves comics.) 

Megan Nadolski tells stories through audio as the COO of Goat Rodeo in Washington, DC. Megan is Goat Rodeo’s driving force behind operations, creative direction, and execution. She’s built Goat Rodeo's distinct sound and process to deliver audio you’ll always want to keep an ear out for.

Ian Enright is the CEO and Co-Founder of Goat Rodeo, Washington D.C.’s first audio podcast network. 

The Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva) are producers of the duPont-Columbia and James Beard Award-winning series Hidden Kitchens heard on NPR’s Morning Edition and two Peabody Award-winning NPR series, Lost & Found Sound and The Sonic Memorial Project. 

The Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva) are also the producers of the NPR series The Hidden World of Girls heard on NPR and hosted by Tina Fey and The Keepers about activist archivists, rogue librarians, curators, collectors and historians. 

Simon Kent Fung is the creator and host of "Dear Alana," the Ambie Award-winning #1 Apple Podcast, a documentary series about conversion therapy, a young woman's suicide, and the rise of traditionalist religion in America.

Madeleine Baran is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter at The New Yorker and the host and lead reporter of the podcast In the Dark. Baran's work focuses on holding powerful people and institutions accountable. 

Natalie Jablonski is a producer for APM Reports, where she works on the investigative podcast In the Dark. Previously, she worked as a reporter and host at WXPR Public Radio in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, and as Morning Edition Producer at Rhode Island Public Radio. 

Karen Duffin is a reporter, editor and teacher. Before becoming an editor for shows like Wild Boys and The Plot Thickens, Karen was a co-host of Planet Money, a staff reporter / producer at This American Life and More Perfect, and a storytelling performer and coach for The Moth. 

Tamar Avishai is a freelance audio producer, writer, and arts reporter who has been encouraging people to look with their ears since 2014. In 2016, she created an award-winning independent art history podcast, The Lonely Palette, and in 2017, co-founded Hub & Spoke, a collective of fiercely independent, idea-driven, and mind-expanding podcasts. 

Elise Pepple is the host and executive producer of Marfa for Beginners, a podcast that tried to hit different notes of human experience: faith, love, racism, existential dread, conflict, and generosity. While a member of the NPR Board, she advocated that the power of media is not simply in providing news and information, but in lifting and connecting people.

Emily Kwong is a journalist and the host of two shows. For NPR, she co-hosts the science podcast Short Wave. For LAist, she hosts the narrative series Inheriting, an AAPI history show where the past is personal. 

Anjuli Sastry is a senior producer of podcasts and radio with 11+ years in the audio industry, primarily working for NPR. Recently, Sastry worked on Inheriting, an Asian American and Pacific Islander history podcast that she co-created and produced. 

Audrey Quinn is a Pulitzer award-winning story editor and a longtime adjunct professor at NYU’s journalism school. She has edited for Stolen, ESPN’s 30 for 30, Drilled, LAist, KCRW, Futuro Media, Campside Media and more. 

Nicole Teeny is a filmmaker, writer, and podcast creator and founder of Teeny Motion Pictures. Her work has appeared on Netflix, Paramount+, ESPN’s 30 for 30, the Sundance Channel, and at Slamdance and the Venice Film Festival. 

Ira Glass is the creator and host of the show This American Life. The program's heard each week by three million people, on public radio and as a podcast. It went on the air in 1995 and championed a kind of narrative storytelling that's now become widespread.