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. 

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.) 

Anna Sussman is a senior producer and managing editor for Snap Judgment, a weekly, national, public radio program and podcast with over 2.5 million listeners. She's also a professor of advanced audio at U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

Anjuli Sastry is an Ambie award-winning senior producer of podcasts and radio, primarily working for NPR. Sastry is the co-creator of Inheriting, an Asian American and Pacific Islander history podcast.

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. 

B.A. Parker is a writer and audio producer from Baltimore. Currently in Brooklyn, NY. 

Her work can currently be heard on NPR as co-host of Code Switch. 

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. 

Brian Reed is the host and producer of “Question Everything” from Placement Theory and KCRW. He is also the host of S-Town and The Trojan Horse Affair. He was formerly the Senior Producer of This American Life.

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. 

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. 

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. 

Gene Demby is an American journalist and podcast host. He is cohost of the podcast Code Switch, created by National Public Radio. He's also the lead blogger covering race, ethnicity, and culture on the blog of the same name. Demby previously founded the blog and podcast PostBourgie.

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

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. 

As co-founder of the Third Coast International Audio Festival, Johanna Zorn has been committed to the development of contemporary audio culture for more than three decades.

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. 

The Man. The Myth. The Boots.

Julie Shapiro is co-founder of Audio Flux, was previously EP of PRX's Radiotopia and helped start the Ear Hustle Podcast, and co-founded the Third Coast International Audio Festival. She's currently a Visiting Artist with Harvard's ArtLab.

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. 

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”.

Marianne McCune is a Supervising Senior Editor at Planet Money. She has more than two decades of experience making audio journalism for programs she loves, including NPR’s Embedded (“Buffalo Extreme”) and Rough Translation, Reveal, NY Mag’s Cover Story and WNYC. She was a news reporter at WNYC, where she also founded the narrative youth radio series Radio Rookies.

Currently living in Brooklyn, Ngofeen Mputubwele is a storyteller. 

He creates fantasy-laden audio documentaries about real life. As a podcast producer, his work has been nominated for a James Beard Award and featured on The New York Times’ Top 10 Podcasts and the Atlantic’s Best 50 Podcasts.

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. 

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. 

Sandhya Dirks is a professor of creative nonfiction and audio documentary at Dartmouth. She was previously NPR’s race and identity correspondent, and has been a reporter at KQED, KALW, KPBS, and Iowa Public Radio. Sandhya is also a founding editor of Sound Fields, a journal about audio documentary in art and practice. She believes all stories are stories about power.

Sarah Ventre is a Peabody-nominated audio journalist and was previously NPR's Senior Producer of Religion & Spirituality. She's best known for her documentary podcast Unfinished: Short Creek, about a fundamentalist Mormon community on the Utah-Arizona border.

Before joining Vox to host its daily news podcast, Today, Explained, Sean Rameswaram was a correspondent for Radiolab’s More Perfect. He has also made radio for the CBC, NPR, and WNYC, where he hosted the fondly remembered Sideshow podcast for Studio 360.

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.

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.