Sound School Podcast Creators & Guests

Rob Rosenthal is an independent producer and a teacher. He’s the host for the HowSound podcast - a joint project of PRX and Transom - on radio storytelling. He started and then ran the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies’ radio track for 11 years. And, he is now the lead teacher for the Transom Story Workshop, which launched in the fall of 2011.

Aviva DeKornfeld is a journalist and audio producer, currently working as an Associate Producer for "his American Life."Previously, DeKornfeld was a producer for the NPR show "Rough Translation," and, before that, "Planet Money." Her writing has been featured on the Feminist Wire and in the Daily Palette.DeKornfeld received a B.A. in Sociology from Pitzer College, and is a graduate of the Transom Storytelling Workshop.

William H. "Bill" Siemering is a radio innovator and advocate, former member of the NPR, and the author of its original "mission statement," the National Public Radio Purposes.

John Biewen is a radio producer and host who currently works as Audio Program Director at the Center for Documentary Studies. He has produced for the NPR newsmagazines, This American Life, Studio 360, American RadioWorks, and the BBC World Service. At the Center for Documentary Studies, he teaches audio courses to undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education students. With co-editor Alexa Dilworth, he edited the book, Reality Radio: Telling True Stories in Sound.

Peter Frick-Wright is a writer and radio maker. He has reported from Bosnia, Burma and Burundi. Peter also co-hosts the Outside Podcast.

Meribah Knight is a journalist who relocated to Nashville from Chicago, where she covered business, the economy, housing, crime and transportation. She is the host of The Promise podcast. Most recently she was a staff reporter with Crain’s Chicago Business covering manufacturing in the Rust Belt, aviation and transportation. Prior to Crain’s she was a staff reporter with the Chicago News Cooperative, producing the Chicago section of The New York Times. There she covered a wide range of topics from arts & culture to education to poverty. She was an adjunct lecturer at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.

Stephanie Foo is a writer, a radio producer and an editor. She was a producer at This American Life for five years, and helped create Snap Judgment. Her book about healing from Complex PTSD, "WHAT MY BONES KNOW," will be coming out in February 2022. Foo taught high school journalism after college but wanted to make radio. She started the music podcast "Stagedive."Foo was an intern and then a producer at "Snap Judgment," then moved to "This American Life." She has also contributed to Reply All and 99% Invisible.Foo launched her own podcast, "Pilot." She was also the project lead on the "This American Life" app called Shortcut. Her culture criticism focuses on diversity in media.

Pat Walters is a journalist and audio producer, currently senior editor of special projects at Radiolab. Previously he worked at Gimlet Media, where he hosted Undone, a show that revisited major national news events from the recent past, and helped create Uncivil, a show that tells the unofficial history of the Civil War, which won a 2017 Peabody Award.

Yowei Shaw is senior reporter/producer at Invisibilia, where she reports, produces, edits, and sound designs stories. Her work on the show has taken listeners into an unlikely love story in martial law era Taiwan, a Midwestern community sharply divided in how it sees wild black bears, and a hardcore music scene that called out one of its own.Before joining the team, she was a USA Knight Fellow, whose work has been featured on This American Life, Pop Up Magazine, Studio 360, and The World, among other places. At one point, she produced interviews at NPR's Fresh Air and once made really good elevator music in Chinatown, Philadelphia.Yowei got her start in radio by teaching youth media, when she was a young person herself. She is ever grateful to her parents for letting her report on their obsession with tango dancing. They were very perplexed when she won a Third Coast documentary award for the story.First name pronounced [YO-way]. Like NO way, with a Y.

Angela Evancie is a Vermont Public Radio reporter.

Gregory Warner is the host of NPR's Rough Translation. Previously, he was the East Africa correspondent for NPR. Before joining NPR, he was a freelance reporter who specialized in conflict zones around the world. His work has appeared on This American Life, Marketplace's "Working" series, and Radiolab.Warner has also worked as senior reporter for American Public Media's Marketplace. His musical journey into the world of medical coding won a Best News Feature award from the Third Coast International Audio Festival.Warner has won a Peabody Award and awards from Edward R. Murrow, New York Festivals, AP, and PRNDI. He earned his degree in English from Yale University.

Erika Beras is a journalist. Her work focuses on wealth and poverty and aging. Currently, she is a host and reporter for NPR's Planet Money.Previously, Beras was a reporter for New Hampshire Public Radio. Before that, she was a reporter at The Miami Herald. Her work has aired on NPR and the BBC.Beras received her degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

Casey Martin is a daily news reporter at KUOW.

Sarah Geis is a producer of The Allusionist podcast.

Pejk Malinovski is a freelance radio producer, sound artist, and poet based in Brooklyn.

Tally Abecassis is a documentary filmmaker and podcast producer. Currently, she is a producer for the New York Times Audio.Abecassis created and hosted the podcast "First Day Back," worked on TV series in both English and French, and was the founder and host of the live storytelling series This Really Happened. Her first book, "Barbershops," was published in 2005.Abecassis graduated from Concordia University with a specialization in Communications Studies.

Micah Loewinger is a reporter currently working as Reporter and Producer for NPR's "On the Media."Previously, Loweinger interned for NPR Music, Radiolab, Soundcheck, WNET’s Great Performances, and Bush Radio in Cape Town, South Africa. Before that, he was Program Director at WNYU 89.1FM.

As Senior Business Editor at NPR, Uri Berliner edits and reports on economics, technology and finance. He provides analysis, context and clarity to breaking news and complex issues.Berliner helped to build Planet Money, one of the most popular podcasts in the country.

Antonia Cereijido is the host and producer of Norco '80 podcast.