Jesse Baker, Co-founder
Jesse Baker is an award-winning journalist and producer who most recently led a large team of creative makers as Audible’s vice president of original content . At Audible, she produced and developed a number of the company’s most successful original series, including West Cork and three seasons of Esther Perel’s Where Should We Begin? Jesse started her career in public radio as a producer on major NPR news magazines including All Things Considered and Weekend Edition. She later created the popular NPR weekly trivia program Ask Me Another. Jesse also produced The Culture Gabfest while at Slate and worked for ESPN producing The Sporting Life with Jeremy Schaap.
Eric Nuzum, Co-founder
Eric Nuzum is one of the audio industry’s top “go-to” experts in podcasting, radio, and spoken word entertainment. Eric led NPR’s initial efforts in podcasting in 2005 and remained that effort’s creative and strategic force for a decade, in which time NPR grew to be the world’s largest distributor of podcasts. Eric developed many of NPR’s most successful podcasts, and continued that record of success during his tenure as Audible’s leader for short-form content and podcasting. Eric is currently writing a book on audio and podcasting creation, titled Make Noise, set for publication by Workman Publishing in December, 2019.
Eleanor Kagan, Senior Producer
Eleanor Kagan is a producer, audio-maker, and storyteller who strives to build communities with her work, whether it's through podcasts, live events, or public enthusiasm. She's worked for public radio outlets like National Public Radio, NPR Music, and WFUV. She served as BuzzFeed's Director of Audio and spearheaded several critically-acclaimed podcasts including Another Round, See Something Say Something, and Thirst Aid Kit. She's produced more than 100 live events in three countries. Most recently, she produced several documentary series at Pineapple Street Studios, including Julie, which explores the process of dying, and Welcome To Your Fantasy, which explores the history of Chippendales.
Paul Schneider, Sound Designer
Paul Schneider is a sound designer, producer, and composer who previously worked for Audible Originals and also at WNYC for over a decade. Since 2016, he has had the pleasure of helping Eric and Jesse develop and launch original content. His work includes original music, production, and editorial support for shows such as Esther Perel’s "Where Should We Begin?" and "How’s Work?", "West Cork", "State of Denial", and "The New Yorker Radio Hour".
Hiwote Getaneh, Producer
Hiwote Getaneh entered the world of audio by producing and hosting her own show Depth & Candor, an interview-based podcast in its third season that explores how black change-makers define and live out their purpose through their careers and side hustles. Trained in public policy, Hiwote worked for years as a Senior Research Analyst at MDRC—a leading social policy research institution. Hiwote eventually veered from the traditional path to explore her research and strategy sensibilities in the media world as a Senior Marketing Strategist for brands like Mic and Afropunk. Hiwote was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and has lived in several corners of the world including Maputo, Mozambique and a tiny Amish town called Kidron, Ohio.
Eva Wolchover, Senior Producer
Eva Wolchover wasn’t always a podcast producer. She once wrote for a major Boston tabloid, where she was forced to write sports stories. Like many before her, she got into podcasting by way of public radio, starting at Car Talk and then spending six years as a producer on NPR’s Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! She once broke NPR when she booked Kim Kardashian as a guest. Most recently she worked at Audible, where she helped develop and produce shows like Esther Perel’s Where Should We Begin? Her greatest achievement is that her dog was in The Onion five years ago.
Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong, Producer
Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong got sucked into radio in grad school, when she passed a flyer for her school’s audio program that asked, “Do You Have An NPR Name?” She did, and went on to produce and report for NPR directly, as well as for member station KUOW in Seattle. She has also made work for Radiotopia, Vox, The Aspen Institute, and others. Prior to her career in audio, Adwoa did communications and storytelling program design for nonprofits and higher ed institutions, including MIT, IDEO, and Harvard. A first generation Ghanaian-American, Adwoa has lived and worked on five continents but splits her heart between West Africa and Oakland.
Kristin Mueller, Sound Designer
Kristin Mueller came to audio production after buying her first 4-track cassette recorder as a teenager. Since then she has worked as a freelance sound engineer, sound designer, mixing engineer, broadcast engineer and sometimes radio producer for various public radio, non-profit and audio production companies. In addition, she is a multi-instrumentalist whose compositional work was part of the soundtrack for the Sundance Award winning film “What Alice Found”. She currently lives in the United Arab Emirates where she is a Technical Instructor of Music at New York University Abu Dhabi.
Elyse Blennerhassett, Producer
Elyse Blennerhassett came to produce radio and film after working with grassroots NGOs throughout Africa and Asia as a permaculture teacher. She has an MA in Oral History with a concentration in Sounds Arts and Radio at Columbia University and a BA in Environmental Studies, Human Rights, and Dance. She’s collaborated on, produced, edited, and designed sound for multichannel audio and video installations, and immersive exhibitions that have premiered at film and photo festivals and galleries throughout North America and Europe, including The Moral Injury of War at The Unfinished Festival. She has also hosted, produced, and edited podcasts for the United Nations Development Programme, The Brooklyn Movement Center, and Valparaiso University Law School. Her investigative work with journalists and lawyers addressing incarceration in the US has directly supported the release and exoneration of several men serving juvenile life without parole sentences. She was raised by wolves in the Sonoran Desert.
Destry Maria Sibley
Producer
Destry Maria Sibley has made podcasts for WNYC, Panoply, Columbia University, the Pop Culture Collaborative, and others. As a Fulbright-National Geographic Digital Storyteller, she spent a year in Mexico producing a historical mini-series about child refugees, the global spread of fascism, and her grandmother. In her spare time, she’s working on a doctorate in American literature, but her greatest aspiration is to breed Great Dane show dogs — or at the very least to make a podcast about them.
Sabrina Farhi
Producer
Sabrina Farhi most recently produced Meditative Story, a hybrid podcast that combines immersive storytelling with mindfulness meditation practices. She also helped produce a wellness podcast, Hello Sleep and the history podcast Presidents are People Too for Audible. Sabrina cut her teeth in audio production by voicing, editing, and producing the weekly broadcast and digital underwriting credits at NPR as their announcer from 2013-2015. Earlier in her career, she was an aspiring actress working on small stage productions, independent films, and behind the mic as a voiceover actress.
Julia Natt, Associate Producer was born and raised in sunny Los Angeles where she spent every morning and afternoon listening to KPCC and KCRW. She found her way to the world of audio production first through the publishing world, before making her way to a boutique production company where she helped develop fact-based narratives for podcasts, film and TV. She double majored in American studies and data analysis and enjoys working on stories that use both sides of her brain.
Ariana Martinez, Sound Designer
Ariana Martinez is a multimedia artist, radio documentarian, and sound designer. Ariana has created radio feature stories for BBC 4’s Short Cuts and BBC 3’s The Essay. They were the sound designer and engineer for Say You’re Sorry (Bucket of Eels for Audible Originals) and Brain on Nature, which was named one of the “Best Podcasts of 2019” by the Financial Times. Ariana has also contributed their skills to Transcripts (a podcast for the Tretter Transgender Oral History Project) and Netflix’s Prism: Tales of Your City. Ariana’s work has appeared at HearSay Festival, LUCIA Festival, Open City Documentary Festival, and The Barbican Cultural Centre’s Soundhouse.