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 Jad Abumrad is the host and producer
of WNYC’s Radio Lab, an award-winning radio series that explores
big ideas through conversation, sound and storytelling. Prior to joining
WNYC, Jad reported & produced documentaries for a variety of local and
national programs (All Things Considered, Morning Edition, On
the Media, among others) and also wrote music and scoring for several
independent films. Jad studied music composition and creative writing at
Oberlin College. Radio is the intersection of those two interests. (The
Ring & I: The Passion, The Myth, The Mania)
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 Chris Brookes is an independent radio producer
whose programs have been heard in the US, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand,
England, The Netherlands and Canada. His documentary features have won
over 30 awards, including the Prix Marulic and Prix Europa Special
Commendations for Documentary; Armstrong and New York Radio Festival Grand
awards in the US; and Canada’s Atlantic Journalism Award, CAJ Best
Investigative Journalism and CBC President awards. Chris has directed and
produced documentaries for Canadian network television, and his television
writing has been nominated for the Gemini award. He is also an author and
playwright, and has taught documentary feature-making and storytelling at radio
festivals and workshops across North America and Europe. Chris currently
directs the production company Battery Radio, with studios at the bottom on the
cliff where Marconi received the first trans-Atlantic wireless message in St.
John’s, Newfoundland. (A Map of the Sea
and The Wire, episode 5: The Sound Around)
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 Mike Bryan spent 15 years with CBC Radio in
Thunder Bay, Ontario. He started out as a freelancer, and finished his career
as station producer. He retired this past spring. (Weighing
the Balance)
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 Aaron
Cohen has a varied career centered on music and media.
Currently he is a producer for WNYC Radio where he has produced every kind of
radio program imaginable, from live call-in shows and concert broadcasts to
pre-produced programs and long-form radio documentaries. Cohen began his
career as a classically trained oboist, winning multiple awards in the United
States and Canada, recording two solo CD’s, and performing at the
Barcelona Summer Olympics in 1992. He later turned his focus to audio/visual
production, producing two original children’s productions and directing
several award-winning short films, most notably his Take Two series
for Columbia University Television. (The Ring
& I: The Passion, The Myth, The Mania) |
 Kellie Hudson has been in journalism for more
than 15 years. As a print journalist, she was at The Toronto Star from
1987 to 2000, where she covered sports, courts, crime, city news and provincial
politics. She also served as a copy editor, assistant city editor, and
associate sports editor. In 2000, she left the only job she ever knew to move
to Thunder Bay for her husband’s work. Crossing to the “dark
side,” she spent three years as a communications officer at the local
public school board. It was time well spent in her eyes because it allowed her
to see the media from a non-journalist’s perspective. More importantly,
it made her realize just how much she missed being a reporter. Kellie started
at CBC Radio in 2003 and has fallen in love with radio, and doesn’t think
she could ever go back to print. (Weighing the
Balance) |
| Sue
Johnson co-founded Picture Projects in 1995 as a way to explore
the intersection of photography and new media. Dubbed by Photo Insider
“the gold standard in interactive documentary,” Picture
Projects’ most well-known work, 360degrees.org and SonicMemorial.org
(both included collaborations with Radio Diaries), have been featured in film
festivals and exhibitions internationally. Their projects have received
numerous awards including the prestigious Online Journalism Award, The National
Press Club Award, The Batten Award for Innovation, as well as The Webby
Award. She is currently as Visiting Lecturer at Harvard University. (Mandela:
An Audio History) |
 Long Haul Productions
Dan Collison is founder and executive director/producer of
Long Haul Productions. Collison has worked in public radio since 1980,
including four years as senior producer and editor of All Things Considered
Weekend. He's produced more than 100 documentaries and oral histories for
radio. His work has been honored with some of radio's most prominent
awards, including the DuPont-Columbia Silver Baton, the Robert F. Kennedy
Journalism Award and the Society of Professional Journalists Award.
Collison is a regular contributor to NPR's All Things Considered.
He teaches radio workshops, has contributed to books, conducted oral history
interviews for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and most recently
collaborated on an exhibit with acclaimed photographer Dawoud Bey at the Jewish
Museum in New York City. (Dear Birth Mother)
Elizabeth Meister is a producer and primary editor for Long
Haul Productions. Most recently, she won the Society of Professional
Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award for Movin’ Out the Bricks,
which she co-produced and edited with partner Dan Collison.
Meister’s public radio career began abruptly in 1998, when she quit her
job at the phone company to volunteer for This American Life.
She started their award-winning website in exchange for a chance to learn how
to make radio documentaries. Since then, she’s produced and
reported stories for NPR’s All Things Considered, Morning
Edition and Day to Day, and won the Society of Professional
Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award and the Radio and Television News Directors'
Edward R. Murrow award for best documentary. In her spare time, she dreams of
her vegetable and wildflower gardens, knits, naps with her cat, and plots
future road trips. (Dear Birth Mother)
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 Molly Menschel lives most of the time in
Massachusetts. She is new to audio production, but has always loved good
stories and in her teenage years became slightly obsessed with tape recording
things. In the fall of 2004 Menschel attended the Salt Institute for
Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine where she participated in the radio
program and learned about radio. She is currently involved in several
book projects (one of which she is recording stories and music from West
Virginia for) and is a part of the group
Radio Pie. (Just Another Fish Story)
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 Dick Miller has been with the CBC for well over
two decades, working in both radio and television as a host, reporter and
producer. He is going into his fourth year as senior producer in charge of
documentaries for the flagship current affairs program The Current.
Dick is also a radio trainer within the CBC and has trained in Indonesia,
Cambodia and Nigeria for a variety of NGOs. He also teaches documentary
production at the University of King’s College School of Journalism in
Halifax Nova Scotia. (Weighing the Balance)
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 Elena Park has worn a variety of hats in the
field of the arts, working as producer, editor, journalist, writer, and
communications director. Currently, she is Executive Producer for Music &
Culture for WNYC Radio, the country’s largest public radio station.
Before catching the radio bug, Elena served as Editor-in-Chief for andante, a
classical music website and record label. She has overseen communications
efforts for performing arts institutions including the Brooklyn Academy of
Music, San Francisco Opera and the Opera Company of Philadelphia. Elena
has studied violin, voice and piano and did tours of duty in the London
Philharmonic Choir and the San Francisco Symphony Chorus. She continues
to write about music, theater and dance for publications including the San
Francisco Chronicle and Playbill. (The
Ring & I: The Passion, The Myth, The Mania )
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 Czerina Patel is the Senior Producer of
WNYC’s award-winning Radio Rookies considered a model for youth
media initiatives nationwide. She has been involved with the
program since its inception more than five years ago. Czerina is dedicated to
child advocacy and has raised funds and organized events to both help and
celebrate youth. Before joining Radio Rookies, Czerina also created a
non-profit organization to help fight child abuse. She found her love for radio
as a student at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism where
her Masters project was a radio documentary profiling a homeless man
whose very personal style of panhandling intrigued her. Besides radio and
youth, Czerina—a native South African— seriously pursues travel and
photography. (My Struggle with Obesity)
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 Paolo Pietropaolo is a radio producer and
musician based in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has worked as a producer
or correspondent on over 15 different daily and weekly shows on CBC Radio One
and CBC Radio Two, including the award-winning show Global Village. He
also spent 4 years performing in the Kiyoshi Nagata Ensemble, a professional
Japanese taiko drumming group in Toronto, Ontario. (
The Wire, episode 5: The Sound Around)
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| Joe
Richman is an award-winning independent producer and reporter
whose pioneering, Teenage Diaries, has brought the voices of teenagers
to a national audience on NPR’s All Things Considered. In
1996, he founded Radio Diaries, a leading production company based in New York
City. Before becoming an independent producer, Joe worked for many years
as a producer on NPR programs All Things Considered, Weekend
Edition-Saturday, Car Talk, and Heat.
Richman’s past productions include some of the most well-known
documentaries heard on NPR in recent years: Mandela: An Audio History,
My So-Called Lungs, New York Works, Prison Diaries,
along with Teenage Diaries. Richman is also an adjunct professor
at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. (Mandela:
An Audio History)
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 Benjamin Shapiro is a New
York-based radio and television producer who has created many documentaries for
NPR, WNET-TV, PBS, and National Geographic, among others. He has been
editor of the PRI show The Next Big Thing, and consulting editor for
Radio Diaries. He co-produced with the Kitchen Sisters, the Peabody
Award-winning Sonic Memorial Special. He has also been a regular producer
for the landmark public television series Egg: The Arts Show, and was
a long-time producer for WNET’s City Arts series. Shapiro
has also received awards from NFCB, CPB, the American Film Institute, as well
as three Emmy’s and 8 Emmy nominations. (Mandela:
An Audio History)
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 Samr “Rocky” Tayeh is a 17-year old
Palestinian American who lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn. He just started
his senior year in high school, and is actively involved in school
activities. One of his favorite activities is peer mediation where he has
the chance to solve problems for other people. Rocky wants to be a
multi-billionaire when he grows up, and also wants to be an entertainer or
lawyer, with radio as a side job. Rocky also completed a commentary about
life in America as a Muslim teen for WNYC, a Radio Rookies report on the New
York City subway system for National Public Radio and a report on a city
council education hearing (for youth) for WNYC. Rocky, who continues to
be seriously involved with Radio Rookies says, “There are no better
storytellers than teenage storytellers.” Rocky was 15 years old
when My Struggle with Obesity was first broadcast on WNYC. (My
Struggle with Obesity)
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 Jowi Taylor is the founding host, writer and
co-producer of CBC Radio’s long-running, multiple award-winning national
weekly show, Global Village, which airs across Canada on both CBC radio
networks as well as world-wide on Radio Canada International and the web.
He is also the creator, producer and artistic director of a multi-media project
for CBC Television, Radio, New Media and beyond called Six String Nation. (The
Wire, episode 5: The Sound Around)
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 Sound artist John Wynne’s work includes
an ongoing series based on recordings he has made in Africa. Upcountry
and James Kamotho Kimani are electroacoustic pieces which have been
heard in concert halls and on the radio in Europe, North America and Australia.
His work with endangered ‘click-languages’ in the Kalahari Desert
in Botswana has resulted in a ‘composed documentary’ for BBC Radio
3 as well as a photographic sound installation which has shown at the Botswana
National Museum, The National Art Gallery of Namibia and at the Brunei Gallery,
London. Wynne also creates large-scale multi-speaker installations, often in
public locations, using auditory warning sounds of his own design. John has
created soundtracks for films selected for the London Film Festival, the BBC
Short Film Festiva and the Rotterdam International Film Festival. He is
currently Senior Lecturer in Sound Arts at the University of the Arts, London.
(Hearing Voices)
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