Fresh Air Creators & Guests

Dave Davies is a reporter, best known as being the guest host for NPR's "Fresh Air." He is also currently working a s a senior reporter for WHYY in Philadelphia.Prior to WHYY, Davies spent 19 years as a reporter and columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News, covering government and politics.Before joining the Daily News, Davies was city hall bureau chief for KYW News Radio in Philadelphia. Before that, he was a reporter for WHYY covering local issues. He also edited a community newspaper in Philadelphia and has worked as a teacher, a cab driver and a welder.Davies is a graduate of the University of Texas.

David Bianculli is a TV critic, columnist, radio personality, non-fiction author, and university professor.

Tonya Mosley is the Silicon Valley bureau chief and host of “Truth Be Told” for KQED. She serves as the senior editor, leading a team of journalists covering the impacts of technology companies on the South Bay and society.

Sam Briger is the producer of Fresh Air Podcast.

Ann Marie Baldonado is an interview contributor and long-time producer at Fresh Air with Terry Gross. She is currently Fresh Air's Director of Talent Development. She got her start in radio in 1997 as a production assistant at WHYY and joined Fresh Air in 1998. For over 20 years, she has focused on the show's TV and film interviews. She became a contributing interviewer in 2015, talking with comedians, actors, directors and musicians like Ali Wong, Kumail Nanjiani, John Cho, and Jeff Tweedy.

Terry Gross is the host and co-executive producer of Fresh Air, an interview-based radio show produced by WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and distributed throughout the United States by NPR.

Lauren Krenzel is the producer of Fresh Air Podcast.

Heidi Saman is a film director, editor, and producer of Fresh Air Podcast.

Phyllis Myers is the producer of Fresh Air Podcast.

Daniel Miller is the producer of Fresh Air Podcast.

Amy Salit was an audio producer. She produced the news stories for the NPR show "Fresh Air" from 1985 until her retirement in 2024.

Therese Madden is a producer of Fresh Air Podcast.

John is the co-founder of Rowhome Productions. He fell in love with audio when he got his first cassette recorder at age 7. In college, he learned to edit by cutting tape with a razor blade; and eventually became a ProTools master. John sharpened his journalistic skills as a producer for NPR’s Fresh Air With Terry Gross. He later joined the small team recruited to develop original programming for Audible. His work has been heard on Weekend Edition, in the Whitney Museum and at the Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site. John has taught radio production at the university level and is currently the producer of NPR’s World Cafe, where he’s worked on interviews with Lizzo, Willie Nelson and Run the Jewels. His favorite gig of all time is still the couple of years he spent as a roadie for the band Huffamoose in the late 90’s.

Sara Saedi was born in Tehran, Iran in the middle of a war and an Islamic Revolution. She immigrated to the Bay Area with her family in 1982, where they remained undocumented for twenty years. She received a B.A. in Films and Mass Communications from the University of California, Berkeley and began her career as a creative executive for ABC Daytime.

David Philipps is a journalist.

Bisha K. Ali is a creator, writer, and stand-up comedian.

David Sipress is a cartoonist and writer.

Megan Twohey is an investigative reporter with The New York Times. She has also written investigative reports for Reuters, the Chicago Tribune, and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Amy Rigby is a singer-songwriter.