Jad Abumrad is the host and producer of WNYC’s Radio Lab, an award-winning radio series that explores big ideas in science and beyond through conversation, sound & storytelling. Prior to joining WNYC, Abumrad worked as an independent reporter, producer and documentarian for a variety of local and national programs. He was also a member of the team that launched PRI's The Next Big Thing. Before working in radio, Abumrad wrote music for films and studied music composition and creative writing at Oberlin College. (Audio Doctor)

Sasha Aslanian is Senior Producer for American RadioWorks, the documentary unit of American Public Media. She has produced investigative, historical and narrative documentaries on a wide range of topics including the trauma industry post 9/11, maternal depression, international adoption and personal bankruptcy.  She has won a Heywood Broun Award for her environmental reporting and two Gracies. Prior to joining ARW in 2000, Aslanian spent eight years producing daily news programs for Minnesota Public Radio. She is a graduate of Grinnell College.
(Presenting the 2006 ShortDocs: 99 Ways to Tell a Radio Story)

Emily Botein is an independent radio producer based in New York, who helped launch PRI¹s The Next Big Thing in 1999 and served as its senior producer. Since 2005, she has worked with a range of shows and institutions, including American Radioworks, American Routes, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, National Public Radio and Weekend America.  Before radio, Botein worked for seven years on local and national folklore programming initiatives at the Smithsonian Institution, the Brooklyn Arts Council and the Center for Traditional Music and Dance.
(Audio Doctor)

Jennifer Deer is an audio producer and graduate student living in Durham, NC. Her work for radio has aired on such nationally syndicated programs as NPR's Day to Day and Weekend America. In 2001 she helped to create ArtVoice, a weekly arts and culture program on Atlanta's NPR affiliate, WABE, which she also hosted. She co-curates the audio documentary podcast Big Shed and teaches audio documentary at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.
(Shed Your Audio Inhibitions)

Neenah Ellis has been an editor, writer and radio producer for 30 years, first for NPR and then as an independent.  She’s won numerous major awards for her documentary work in radio and television, including three Peabodys. Recently Ellis produced two series for NPR’s Morning Edition; one about centenarians and the other about one-room schools.  Both were multi-platform solo projects that included photographs, print spin-offs, web sites, lecture series and the best-selling book,  “If I live to be 100”.
(Audio Doctor)

Ira Glass is the host and creator of the radio program This American Life, which is heard on 500 public radio stations by 1.7 million listeners each week. He started working in public radio in 1978 when he was 19 as an intern at NPR's Washington headquarters. He's currently filming a television version of This American Life for the Showtime network, which will air in late 2006 or early 2007.
(Audio Doctor)

Kenneth Goldsmith is the author of eight books of poetry, founding editor of the online archive UbuWeb, and the editor of "I'll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews." Goldsmith hosts a weekly radio show on New York City's WFMU, and he teaches writing at The University of Pennsylvania, where he is a senior editor of PennSound, an online poetry archive. More about Goldsmith can be found at the University of Buffalo's Electronic Poetry Center.
(The Sounds of Madness)

Brendan Greeley is Open Source’s blogger in chief. He has written for The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine and the Wall Street Journal Europe. He is the radio editor of John Hodgman's Little Gray Book Lectures, and his audio work has been featured by Transom, Wonkette!, the Irish broadcaster RTE, Radio Netherlands and US public radio stations. Before Open Source he was the site editor of the Public Radio Exchange; he has been quoted on blogs and podcasting by The Economist, the BBC, the AP, The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times.
(Sources, Correspondents, Fixers: Making Radio with Bloggers)

Stephanie Guyer-Stevens jumped into radio to tell the stories of women in places far from the spotlight in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. She works with a team of seasoned radio and media professionals who together constitute Outer Voices. Their stories have aired on almost 200 stations in the U.S. and in places as far flung as Iceland, Malaysia, and Pakistan, and have become a recognized resource for educators.
(Telling Stories Far From Home)

Kari Hesthamar has worked for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, NRK radio and television, since 1996 and in the NRK feature department since 1998. She often presents workshops around Norway and Europe and has won numerous major awards for her work, including the Prix Europa (1999, 2004) and the Prix Italia (2003). Hesthamar has been a member of the EBU (European Broadcasting Union) Project Group since 2003.
(Radio Norway)

Zoë Irvine’s background is in visual art, but she began to work with sound in 1994. Her current practice includes sound pieces, broadcasts, participatory projects and publications. Irvine’s work ranges from carefully crafted individual pieces for gallery spaces to the creation of conceptual platforms, inviting others to participate. Her works are often inspired by early audio technology and historic figures. She lives in Scotland. (Presenting the 2006 ShortDocs: 99 Ways to Tell a Radio Story)

Carma Jolly is a producer at CBC Radio’s Outfront, a Canadian radio program that invites listeners to create documentaries about themselves. Carma has worked in radio since 1993, mostly in news and current affairs. She has made numerous documentaries and even won some awards. She’ll also proudly mention that a side adventure found her in New Delhi interning at India’s first women’s press.
(Presenting the 2006 ShortDocs: 99 Ways to Tell a Radio Story)

A Correspondent for National Public Radio, award-winning producer Robert Krulwich regularly appears on Morning Edition and All Things Considered. He is co-host of Radio Lab, a nationally distributed radio series that explores new developments in science for people who are curious but not usually drawn to science shows. No stranger to TV, Krulwich contributes to ABC’s Nightline, World News Tonight and World News Now. His talent for on-air teaching is often called upon to make complicated subjects comprehensible. Over the years, he’s used ballet companies, puppets and animals (live and stuffed) to help illustrate hard-to-understand concepts in finance, biology and economics.
(These are a Few of My Favorite Things)

Sarah Levine is an English teacher and the leader of Curie Youth Radio, a writing and radio production class at Curie High School on the Southwest Side of Chicago. Like many youth producers, Curie Youth Radio students are simultaneously working to create fresh and revealing stories while trying to figure out just exactly what “fresh” and “revealing” mean.  You can hear their work on NPR, Chicago Public Radio and other fabulous local stations around the U.S.
(Teens With Mics)

Matt Madden lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife and fellow cartoonist, Jessica Abel. He is a cartoonist and illustrator who also teaches comics and drawing at the School of Visual Arts. His recent work includes 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style, a collection of his comics adaptation of Raymond Queneau's Exercises in Style and A Fine Mess, Madden's anthology series. For recent news and comics, check out his website.
( Presenting the 2006 TCF ShortDocs:99 Ways to Tell a Radio Story)

Jonathan Mitchell is an independent radio producer who likes to make radio pieces that live somewhere between documentary and music. His work has been heard on programs such as Studio 360, Weekend America, Radio Lab, and The Next Big Thing. Currently, he is a producer for Fair Game, a new nightly satirical news program from PRI. He is the former senior producer of Loose Leaf Book Company and the former creative director of Beyond Computers, for which he also composed the theme music.  He studied music composition at the University of Illinois and Mills College.
(Let Your Sounds do the Talking)

Marilyn Pittman is a veteran radio producer, writer, commentator and voice coach to NPR stations since 1989. Pittman also teaches performance at U.C. Berkeley’s prestigious graduate school of journalism.  She is a working director, narrator and actor. Her weekly radio show “Out in the Bay,” is heard on KALW in San Francisco where she lives and still does stand-up comedy.
(Talk the Copy)

Joe Richman is an independent producer for NPR's All Things Considered and the founder of Radio Diaries. Over the past ten years, Radio Diaries has helped to pioneer a model for working with people to document their own lives. Past productions include: Teenage Diaries, Prison Diaries, My So-Called Lungs, New York Works, Mandela: An Audio History, and Thembi's AIDS Diary.  Richman also teaches part  time at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.
(The Invisible Narrator)

Dmae Roberts, Executive Producer of MediaRites Productions has produced more than 400 features, audio arts pieces and documentaries. In 1990, she received the George Foster Peabody award for "Mei Mei, A Daughter's Song." Other awards include the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism, two Clarion, four NFCB awards, two Asian American Journalists Association awards and a Webby Worthy for many awards. She recently completed Crossing East, an eight-hour Asian American history series hosted by George Takei and Margaret Cho and carried on 200 PRI stations.
(Group [Radio] Therapy)

Rob Rosenthal is the director of the Radio Program at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine. He has received awards for his work as an independent radio producer from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters and the Maine Association of Broadcasters. His most recent endeavor is an audio tour of the Kennebec-Chaudiere Heritage Corridor.
(Bring Extra Batteries)

Shea Shackelford is an independent producer based in Washington, D.C., where he produces for nationally syndicated public radio shows, co-curates the Big Shed audio documentary podcast, and coordinates a radio program at the Latin American Youth Center's Art + Media House. After spending ten years as a professional do-gooder, he succumbed to a love of audio, abandoned his job, and for the last few years has enjoyed the ecstasy and anxiety of a freelance audio career.
(Shed Your Audio Inhibitions)

Third Coast Festival Managing Director Julie Shapiro has been with the Festival since its inaugural year (2000). Before moving to Chicago, Shapiro worked at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke and produced Storylines Southeast, a public radio series about literature from that region. She was assistant director of Transmissions, an annual sound and art festival from 1998-2001. Shapiro makes audio art for public presentation and can occasionally be heard on the public radio airwaves.
(Presenting the 2006 ShortDocs: 99 Ways to Tell a Radio Story)

Jill Summers studied music at Indiana University and has an MFA in interdisciplinary book and paper arts from Columbia College. Her audio work has been featured by the TCIAF and Chicago Public Radio, as well as internationally through the New Adventures in Sound Art compilations. She manages Stray Dog Recording Co. in Chicago.
(Presenting the 2006 ShortDocs: 99 Ways to Tell a Radio Story)

Nancy Updike spent the last three years in Jerusalem, writing stories for This American Life, All Things Considered, Marketplace, The New York Times Magazine and the LA Weekly. She is glad to be out of the Middle East, but is unsettled to find that she now lives in Washington, D.C. Her radio documentary on American civilians working in Iraq won the Edward R. Murrow Award for news documentary, and a Scripps-Howard National Journalism Award. She won a Peabody in 1996 for her work as a producer on This American Life.
(Die, Mediocrity, Die!)

Daniel Zwerdling has served as NPR's environmental reporter, roving Africa correspondent, long-time host of Weekend All Things Considered and was lent, temporarily to PBS' "NOW with Bill Moyer." Now Zwerdling is winning top awards for NPR for his investigative stories. NPR's staff has hailed his reports as the ones "that keep our listeners sitting in their cars in the driveway." Member stations and others frequently ask him to lead workshops to help show fellow reporters how to do it.
(Zwerdling on Radio)