James Barrs is a musician, radio producer and enthusiastic chess novice. James lives in western Colorado and produces for KVNF and Aspen Public Radio.

Siri Colom is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Worcester State University. She focuses on politics, race, urban politics, with a particular focus on the ways communities come apart and together after disasters. She holds a PhD from the University of California Berkeley.

Lynne Gerber is an independent scholar in San Francisco. Her work focuses on American religion, morality, and the body. She’s the author of Seeking the Straight and Narrow: Weight Loss and Sexual Reorientation in Evangelical America (University of Chicago, 2012). She is co-founder of Eureka Street Productions and Executive Producer and Host of the forthcoming documentary podcast, When We All Get to Heaven.

Sarah Kate Kramer is an award-winning audio producer, story editor, writer, and an adjunct journalism professor at NYU. She produces audio diaries, historical documentaries, audio tours, the occasional essay, and listening events. She loves archival tape.  

Martina Abrahams Ilunga is a community builder, entrepreneur and storyteller creating liberatory spaces to tell Black stories. In 2016, she launched You Had Me at Black, an audio-memoir and live story hour passing the mic to Black Millennials. 100 stories, 1MM+ downloads, and 11 events later, the series reimagined the art of oral tradition and pioneered a fresh format for the podcast industry, establishing a standard that became the foundation of her storytelling studio by the same name. She is an executive producer and co-host of NATAL, an award-winning podcast docuseries about having a baby (or not) while Black. Her work has appeared on NPR, been selected by TribecaX, and showcased at NEW INC’s DEMO festival. Most recently, she co-created Black Storytelling Week, a holiday dedicated to passing down Black family history. Martina lives in Brooklyn, NY with her love. 

Ariana Nedelman is an audio producer in Pittsburgh and is co-founder of Eureka Street Productions and Not Sorry Productions. 

Tasha Sandoval is a Colombian-American audio producer, journalist, and writer based between Bogotá and New York City. She has helped produce award-winning bilingual podcasts at Futuro Media and WNYC Studios. Her essays and criticism have appeared in Catapult, Refinery 29 Somos, Public Books, and elsewhere.

Lucia Scazzocchio is an award-winning audio producer/sound artist and the principal alchemist behind Social Broadcasts. Social Broadcasts empowers audio to weave conversational stories and interpersonal narratives that illustrate, examine and explore wider social themes. Driven by creating engaging participatory radio and audio experiences that are 'audioscaped' into imaginative on and off-line broadcast initiatives, much of Lucia's work explores our relationship with place and the evolving environments around us. Visit: www.socialbroadcasts.co.uk. Lucia is also the founder and curator of xmtr.fm a sonic storytelling platform for independent audio makers. 

Hayden Stern is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in unceded Duwamish Territories (Seattle, Washington, USA). Their work examines madness, survivorship, and the way that time and space function in the context of the psychiatric institution. Working from interviews conducted with survivors of institutional violence, they transform primary source material into textile and sound works that engage with strategies institutionalized people use to navigate the experience of detention. Their work has been shown at multiple venues in Seattle, the greater US, and abroad.