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Host of Canadian jazz show, Orange Grove Radio. Heard Fridays at 9:00 p.m. on WUWF.

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Dr. Enid Sisskin received her PhD from Columbia University in Pathobiology and did her postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, one of the institutes that makes up the National Institute of Health. She has worked as an environmental activist in this area for more than 25 years. She is the creator of the EcoMinute and has produced & hosted the series since 2009. Her interests include knitting, quilting, swimming, gardening, despite yearly failures, and she continues to work for environmental protection. She is also everyone's favorite Jewish mother and stage manager at RadioLive. Contact: enid@wuwf.org.

Sarah Boden covers health, science and technology for 90.5 WESA. Before coming to Pittsburgh in November 2017, she was a reporter for Iowa Public Radio where she covered a range of issues, including the 2016 Iowa Caucuses.

Ammad Omar oversees coverage of the western United States for NPR, and serves as the editorial lead at NPR West in Culver City, California.

Ben Bradford is a city kid, who came to Charlotte from San Francisco by way of New York, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. Prior to his career in journalism, Ben spent time as an actor, stuntman, viral marketer, and press secretary for a Member of Congress. He graduated from UCLA in 2005 with a degree in theater and from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in 2012. As a reporter, his work has been featured on NPR, WNYC, the BBC, and Public Radio International.

As head of NPR's International Desk, Dobson manages a team of correspondents across the globe committed to delivering powerful stories and authoritative reporting on international politics, economics, and culture.

After taking a semester off from college to intern with Vermont Public Radio in 1999, Sidsel was hooked. She went on to work as a reporter and producer at WNYC in New York and WAMU in Washington, DC before moving to New Mexico in 2007. As KUNM’s Conservation Beat reporter, Sidsel covered news from around the state having to do with protection of our earth, air and water. She also kept up a blog, earth air waves, filled with all the bits that can’t be crammed into the local broadcast of Morning Edition and All Things Considered. When not interviewing inspiring people (or sheep), Sidsel could be found doing underdogs with her daughters at the park.

Christina Cala is a producer for the TED Radio Hour. While at TED Radio Hour, she's piloted two new episode formats — the curator chat and the long interview. She's also reported on a movement to preserve African American cultural sites in Birmingham and followed youth climate activists in New York City.