Lisa C. Abbatomarco began her sound career over 20 years ago with her brother and the Panasonic tape recorder that traveled with them on family vacations. Multi-voiced and completely captivated with old time radio shows, sonance became her sidekick. Lisa is also a visual and performing artist, puppeteer a go-go, stilt-walker, avant-garde explorer, tangential vocalist, instigator of large hoo-ha and rebel educator. (Gallery of More - Journey to the Inner Outsider Ear)

Noah Adams began working in radio three decades ago as a volunteer DJ at a Kentucky station, and was beckoned to the news side by a local environmental issue. He co-hosted NPR’s All Things Considered for 20 years, and has been a National Desk reporter since 2003. Adams has written five books, only one of which is about radio. He lives in Takoma Park, MD, and “still has panicky dreams about not being to get to the studio when the program’s starting.” He also claims, “I still dream in analog.” (Noah's The Classics)

Sarah Boothroyd’s work is frequently heard on CBC Radio in Canada, and has also been featured on BBC Radio 4, Resonance FM, Chicago Public Radio, and on the Deep Wireless CD compilations. Her sound art has been presented at various radiophile gatherings, including the International Features Conference and the Radio Without Boundaries Festival. Boothroyd’s talents have been recognized in competitions held by New Adventures in Sound Art, the Canadian Association of Broadcasters, the Canadian Association of Journalists, and the European Broadcasting Union. (Presenting the 2008 TCFShortDocs: Radio Ephemera)

Alessandro Bosetti was born in Milan, Italy in 1973. He is a composer and sound artist working on the musicality of spoken words and unusual aspects of spoken communication, producing text-sound compositions featured in live performances, radio broadcasts and published recordings. His work blurs the line between sound anthropology and composition, often including translation and misunderstanding in the creative process. Bosetti is assistant professor in sound at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore. (Approaching Approaches / Gallery of More - Mask/Mirror)

Adam Davidson is International Business & Economics Correspondent for National Public Radio. He travels the world, covering the global economy and trying hard to make it interesting to people who don't normally care about economics. Davidson is a frequent contributor to This American Life and used to be Mideast correspondent for Marketplace. He's won a few awards, including the Daniel Schorr Prize, and was a finalist for the DuPont-Columbia Award. © 2005 NPR Photo by Jay Paul
(How to Make Good Radio When You Don't Have Any Time Or Good Tape)

Deborah George lives and works in Takoma Park, Maryland. She was on the staff of NPR News for more than 15 years and since 1996 has edited the Radio Diaries series which airs on NPR’s All Things Considered. Her career as a producer, editor and reporter has taken her to Asia, Latin America and to Africa. George's work has garnered many awards  including four Silver Batons and a Gold Baton given by the  Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Awards. She was Senior Editor for American RadioWorks;  produced  NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday and has been an editor on NPR’s National, Cultural and Foreign desks and the DNA Files from Soundvision. (Just Listen to Yourself)

Brooke Gladstone is host and managing editor of NPR's On the Media, produced by WNYC Radio. She has been the senior editor of NPR’s All Things Considered and Weekend Edition with Scott Simon, also a Moscow correspondent and NPR’s first media reporter. She has won a couple of Peabody Awards among others. (Mastering the Grill: Why Some Interviews Go Up in Smoke)

Jonathan Goldstein is host and producer of CBC Radio’s WireTap. He is a contributing editor to This American Life and a member of the PRX editorial board. His writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Nerve and The National Post where he has a weekly column. His latest book, a retelling of stories from the Old Testament, will be published by Riverhead this spring. He lives in Montreal. (Caging the Chaos: How to Produce Radio Stories That Aren't Exactly Stories)

David Green is a Chicago-area third grade teacher and writer. Unable to run away and join NPR, Green instead developed an audio production curriculum at school. Thus, “Third Grade Audio” was born. From personal narratives to profiles, eight and nine-year old students capture aspects of life, which go unnoticed by those of us with "older" eyes and ears. “Third Grade Audio” work has been featured on public radio, PRX and Generation PRX. Green has long been intrigued by interactive/participatory art projects such as this one. (Gallery of More - Ephemera Board 2)

Jens Jarisch has spent half his life in Berlin, where he currently works as an independent producer of one-hour radio documentaries. He has squandered valuable years studying literature, occupying himself with random travels to peculiar places all along. Spellbound by the world's sound, he began recording what he found most difficult to grasp, trying to reveal the hidden and make it audible. Jarisch’s work runs to ten documentaries and has been awarded with several national and international media prizes. (The Inner Sound of the Outer World)

The Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva) are producers of  the duPont-Columbia Award-winning and  James Beard Award-nominated NPR series Hidden Kitchens, and the two Peabody Award-winning NPR series, Lost & Found Sound and The Sonic Memorial Project.  Hidden Kitchens heard on Morning Edition, explores the world of secret, unexpected, below the radar cooking across America—how communities come together through food.  The series inspired their first book, Hidden Kitchens: Stories, Recipes, and More from NPR’s The Kitchen Sisters, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year for 2005 and nominated for a James Beard Award for Best Writing on Food.
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Long Haul Productions:
Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister’s audio documentaries and song/stories detail everyday life in America and have consistently garnered radio’s top awards. Collison began as a volunteer at a “new wave” radio station in California, eventually ending up as senior producer/editor at All Things Considered Weekend. He founded Long Haul in 1995. After beginning her career with an ill-advised stint temping in Donald Rumsfeld’s office, Meister found refuge as a volunteer at This American Life.  She joined Long Haul in 2001, and moonlights as a writer and researcher (most recently for Sufjan Stevens’ The BQE at the Brooklyn Academy of Music).  Collison and Meister left Chicago for rural southwest Michigan in 2006, where they’ve become adept at using directional microphones during interviews to avoid the moans of the neighbor’s mooing cows. (Group [Radio] Therapy)

Julia McEvoy is senior editor for Chicago Public Radio, responsible for coverage of education, immigration and housing issues. She joined Chicago Public Radio in 1986 on a freelance basis, later becoming documentary producer, editor and then executive producer of Chicago Matters. McEvoy began the station’s mentorship program, Ear to the Ground, which develops new contributing voices to Chicago Public Radio programs. During her tenure as executive producer of Chicago Matters, the series received numerous accolades, including Peabody, Anna E. Casey and  Edward R. Murrow awards. (Audio Doctor)

Beverly Mire is Assistant Director, Education for the MIT/Terrascope Youth Radio Project.  Additionally she does media outreach for the Boston Public Schools and is an evaluator for Achieve Boston. Mire is well-known for her work at Youth Radio (Oakland, Calif.) where for 12 years she was deputy and training director. She holds numerous awards in association with Youth Radio including a Peabody and the duPont/Columbia Silver Baton. Mire has received personal recognition from the National Association on Crime and Delinquency, and is a Salzburg Seminar Fellow. (College: A Hotbed of Emerging Producers)

Archivist, writer, and filmmaker Rick Prelinger founded the Prelinger Archives, whose collection of 60,000 advertising, educational, industrial and amateur films was acquired by the Library of Congress after 20 years' operation. He is co-founder of the Prelinger Library, an appropriation-friendly private research library that is open tothe public, located in downtown San Francisco.

Ben Shapiro has been producing and editing programs and series for  public radio for over 20 years. His projects and collaborations have received the Peabody, Dupont, Third Coast Festival, Foreign Press and many other awards. He is also an Emmy-award winning documentary director and cinematographer whose work has appeared on CBS, HBO, PBS, and National Geographic, and at theaters and museums around the US and Europe. (Listening Critically)

Meghan Vigeant is a radio gypsy. Most recently she taught radio documentary at the Brown Ledge Gap Year program in Vermont.  Over the last year she's learned from Vermont farmers how to live a rewarding and frugal life so she can support her radio habit. She has filed for Vermont Public Radio, interned at Living on Earth, starved as an actor in Detroit, researched Manhattan's African Burial Ground and salted the radio landscape at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. (Presenting the 2008 TCFShortDocs: Radio Ephemera)

Jim Wehmeyer has spent the better part of the last 20 years teaching, telling and taking apart the popular mass-mediated stories of our day. He has taught media and cultural studies at Fort Lewis College, Georgetown University and the University of Washington, produced  digital exhibits and educational media for the Smithsonian institution, and is currently worming his way into the documentary and new media scene in Toronto. He is also the father of two small children, so please … leave a message. (Listening Critically)

Glenn Weyant is a sound sculptor, writer, educator, journalist and baker based in Tucson, Arizona. His sound work attempts to blend non-traditional instruments, narrative and sonic exploration in creating immersive environments that encourage listeners to follow their own paths of discovery and awareness. He is an adjunct journalism instructor/ internship coordinator at The University of Arizona, and with his wife Jenniffer spends his free time raising their daughter Kestrel who is a constant source of creative inspiration and wonder. (Gallery of More - The World is Your Instrument: Play It Now)