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Dr. Chioke I’Anson is a philosopher and founding Director of Community Media at the VPM + ICA Community Media Center at the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University. He created RESONATE and has been heard on shows like Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, Everything Is Alive, Love + Radio, and The 11th.
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 and received 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.
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Axel Kacoutié is an audio artist and poet who’s been weaving sound, music, and words to challenge the familiar and revive a magic in the mundane.
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Since launching her first show in 2014, Laura has led and shaped the growth of top-charting podcasts serving Latino listeners in the US and internationally. She's currently the Lead Producer of The Moment from Radio Ambulante Studios and iHeart's MyCultura and dedicates her free time to the NYC collective Audio Spice.
Dane Founder and Publisher of Good Tape, a design studio and magazine elevating both cultural and critical coverage of the podcast industry. With a career spanning Headgum, Gumball, SXM Media, and Simplecast, He's always looking to maintain both commercial and creative perspectives to best support creators and publishers retain their creative integrity while building sustainable businesses.
In addition to Good Tape, He's the owner of Off The Record, a community media business that brings together podcast executives, creatives, and brands (IRL) to discuss hyper-relevant topics to evolve our industry. Dane is also the creator of Fast Follow Summit.
John DeLore is an audio enthusiast, renowned radio/podcast sound designer, producer, and editor, with a career that spans from his time at WNYC/New York Public Radio, to the start-up days of Gimlet, to Stitcher. These days John runs his independent production shop Starlight Diner (where he's worked on Constellation Prize: Nightwalking, the award-winning series Weight For It, the fourth season of the now independent Paris Review, and most recently the third season of In the Dark from the New Yorker). In 2023, along with Julie Shapiro, John co-founded Audio Flux, a new home for independent audio.John is also a Reverend in the Church of the Snakeskin Boots.
Joni Deutsch is SVP of Marketing & Audience Development at The Podglomerate, the award-winning podcast services firm recently named “Best Podcast Marketing & Production Agency” by PR Daily. She’s overseen podcast audience growth for high-profile shows and brands including Netflix, The Boston Globe, PBS, NPR, Harvard, Stanford, CVS, and more.
Joni is an award-winning audio professional and NPR veteran with 15 years of outstanding experience as a producer, content manager, and marketer/audience growth specialist. She spent the first decade of her career innovating audio and community engagement at various public radio stations and as a national host with NPR Music.
Her work has been recognized by the Murrow Awards, Gracie Awards, and Webby Awards, in addition to the ONA’s Women’s Leadership Accelerator, Axios’ “30 under 30,” and Duke University TiP's Early Achievement Award.
Keisha “TK” Dutes is an independent audio producer, writer, educator, and the creator of The Secret Life of TK, a nonlinear experimental audio biography that explores identity, travel, and transformation.Her production credits include acclaimed shows like BuzzFeed’s Thirst Aid Kit, Function with Anil Dash, Good Words with Kirk Franklin, and Open World, among others. As a host, she’s brought her voice and perspective to WBAI’s Rise Up Radio and TK in The AM, a thrice-weekly live streaming morning show on Bondfire Radio. She’s also contributed as a reporter and talent for NPR and Slate, and taught podcasting through platforms like Spotify, PRX Podcast Garage, and BRIC Arts Media.
Aaron Edwards is a writer, story editor, and director working across text, stage, and audio. His work has appeared at BAM, Lincoln Center, and the Tribeca Festival. He’s based in the Hudson Valley.
Isaac Kestenbaum is co-founder, along with Josephine Holtzman, of the audio production company Future Projects. Along with James Dommek, Jr., they created the podcast Alaska Is the Center of the Universe (2023) and Midnight Son (2019) for Audible Originals, the latter of which was recently adapted for Hulu as the documentary film Blood and Myth.
Isaac is also the director of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies at the Maine College of Art & Design, as well as a 2008 Salt graduate. He is the former production manager at StoryCorps, and has also worked as a newspaper reporter and a commercial lobsterman.
Anisa Khalifa is an award-winning podcast producer and host at WUNC-North Carolina Public Radio. She grew up in a public radio household, and fell in love with podcasts shortly before her friends convinced her to start one with them about Korean dramas. Since joining WUNC in 2021, Anisa has produced Me and My Muslim Friends, CREEP, Tested and Dating While Gray, and is the host of WUNC's weekly podcast about North Carolina, The Broadside.
Anisa is also the co-creator of indie podcasts Dramas Over Flowers and Muslim in Plain Sight. In her non-podcast life, she’s a culture writer, poet, visual artist and chronic insomniac, who is fascinated by the stories we tell about ourselves and each other.
Emily Kwong (she/her) is an audio journalist working at the crossroads of sociopolitical history, family memory, and science. She is the host and co-creator of Inheriting, a show about Asian American and Pacific Islander families. The first season won the 2025 Ambie Award for Best Society and Culture Podcast, the Silver Signal Award for Best History Podcast, and the 2025 RFK Journalism Award in Radio. For the last four years, Emily has also been the co-host of Short Wave, NPR's flagship science show. Emily got her start as a youth media instructor at WNYC’s Radio Rookies and a daily reporter at the community radio station KCAW in Sitka, Alaska. For four years, she chased stories up fishing boats and onto volcanoes, broadcasting to an island community.
Zach Mack is an award-winning producer, storyteller, and host with a passion for creating compelling podcasts. He recently hosted the Alternate Realities season of NPR: Embedded, which also ran as part of This American Life.
In the past, he's worked on some of the most popular and acclaimed podcasts out there, including Binge Mode (Time Magazine’s No. 1 podcast of 2017) and The Rewatchables (Apple Podcasts’ “Best of 2018”) for The Ringer, as well as Today Explained (an Ambie and Webby award winner), and Land of the Giants (an AdWeek and Webby award winner in 2021) for Vox Media. He also created and hosted Greetings from Somewhere, an independent travel series that Outside Magazine called “impeccably made” and Podcast Review described as a “breakout star of the genre.”
In the past, he's worked on some of the most popular and acclaimed podcasts out there, including Binge Mode (Time Magazine’s No. 1 podcast of 2017) and The Rewatchables (Apple Podcasts’ “Best of 2018”) for The Ringer, as well as Today Explained (an Ambie and Webby award winner), and Land of the Giants (an AdWeek and Webby award winner in 2021) for Vox Media. He also created and hosted Greetings from Somewhere, an independent travel series that Outside Magazine called “impeccably made” and Podcast Review described as a “breakout star of the genre.”
Eleanor McDowall is a radio-maker, curator, and one of two directors at the independent production company Falling Tree.
She makes audio documentaries, zines about the radio, podcasts, and occasionally writes sound captions for films. She’s collaboratively created cinemas for sound, given talks on audio-making, and experimented with multiple modes of visualising radio, most frequently with her project Radio Atlas—an English-language home for subtitled audio from around the world.
Lesedi Mogoatlhe is the editor and host for the Radio Workshop podcast, with extensive experience training youth in podcasting and radio production across Africa. She has over 15 years of experience in TV and film, and holds an MA in documentary filmmaking from Sussex University. Lesedi also qualified as an Integral Coach from UCT School of Business, and uses storytelling principles in her Coaching Practice, Ditoro.
Dhashen Moodley is Radio Workshop’s senior producer. He is currently working on an audio documentary series about how South Africa’s energy transition can be just. Previously, Dhashen spent 14 years working his way through nearly every newsroom position on public radio and television in South Africa, including news anchor, reporter, and editor. He has contributed to The New York Times, NPR, BBC, VOA, Foreign Policy and Vanity Fair, and won fellowships from the United Nations, Bloomberg, Earth Journalism Network, Netherlands Fellowship Program, and the prestigious International Visitor Leadership Program. His past stories have won awards from the International Documentary Association, Signal Awards and One World Media.
Julie Shapiro is a career listener, collaborator, and audio enthusiast. She co-founded Audio Flux with John DeLore in 2023. Before that she was Vice President of Editorial, PRX, and Executive Producer of PRX’s Radiotopia, where she co-founded and executive produced the Ear Hustle podcast, Over the Road, and Radiotopia Presents, among other award-winning shows. In 2000, she co-founded the Third Coast International Audio Festival, where as artistic director she shaped the Festival’s creative trajectory and nurtured a robust international listening culture.
Heidi Shin is a journalist, writer, and podcast producer based in Boston, who is especially interested in the stories of immigrant communities and the inevitable connections between stories from abroad and our lives here in the US.Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, BBC, PRX The World, WGBH, National Geographic, Atlas Obscura, Snap Judgment, GroundTruth Project, and California Sunday Magazine, among other outlets. Awards include an ONA, a Webby, Signal Awards, Edward R. Murrow Award, Asian American Journalists Association Award, Religion News Association Award, Society for Features Journalism Award, and The New Yorker Festivals Radio Award.
Laura Ubaté (she/her) is a creative project manager, story editor, and audio storyteller. A former public radio journalist, her work has been featured in award-winning narrative nonfiction podcasts of Audible, Spotify, Adonde Media, and BBC World, among others. Laura has mentored more than 20 Latinx creators in five countries and founded Colombia’s first podcaster community, El Café Podcastero. Her podcasts Juventud Maldito Vacío and Viajes Inmóviles have been showcased in Colombia, Mexico, and Spain.
Laura is a 2025 AIR Media New Voices Fellow and the winner of the Diversity Fellowship from the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in 2021. She has been a member of the jury for the Signal, IWPA, and IDA awards (US) and Premios Ondas (Spain).
Yi Yang is a cross‑cultural storyteller and podcast industry pioneer with over a decade of experience in audio. His work has been featured on This American Life and the BBC World Service, and a Chinese-language podcast he produced earned the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Award for Excellence in Audio Reporting. Yang co‑created Left‑Right, a Mandarin-language cultural podcast that became a breakout success and helped shape China’s modern podcasting scene. He is co-founder of JustPod—China’s leading podcast network featuring 50 shows reaching more than over 50 million listeners—and led collaborations with global brands. He also founded PodFest China, the country’s first podcast conference, creating a home for creators and audio professionals to connect and grow. Dedicated to cross-border collaboration, Yang brought NPR’s Podcast Start Up Guide to China and organized workshops with NPR producers to support hundreds of emerging Chinese podcasters.
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