Our Team
John Rudolph
Jocelyn Gonzales
Maritza L. Félix
Quincy Surasmith
Majd Al-Waheidi
Alejandro Salazar Dyer
Debi Zelko
Jason Agyekum
Isabela Rocha
Virginia Lora
Board of Directors
John Rudolph
Jocelyn Gonzales
Martina Guzman
Von Diaz
Valeria Fernandez
Anne Donohue
Karen Frillmann
Aaron Leaf
Sarah Kramer
Former Managing Editors
Mia Warren is an audio producer based in Brooklyn, NY. Previously, she produced for StoryCorps and reported for Marfa Public Radio in far west Texas. Mia is the co-creator and executive producer of Feeling My Flo, a podcast for tweens and teens all about menstruation. She got her start in audio storytelling in Lima, Peru, where she documented stories in the Japanese Peruvian community on a Fulbright fellowship.
Rob St. Mary has been involved in storytelling since he started an underground student newspaper while still in high school. Since then he has become an internationally-renowned award-winning writer, radio & podcast host/reporter/producer, journalist, filmmaker, and crowdfunding professional. Rob is best known for his career in radio/podcast journalism with stints at WJR (Detroit), WOOD (Grand Rapids), WDET (Detroit), KAJX (Aspen), and the Detroit Free Press. During his time in commercial & public radio, Rob won over two dozen state awards for individual, investigative, and feature reporting. He was also a two-time regional Edward R. Murrow Award winner from the Radio-Television News Director’s Association. As an author, Rob received Michigan Notable Book Award honors in 2016 for his first project, “The Orbit Magazine Anthology.” A Knight Arts challenge winner, Rob is currently in process on a project documenting Detroit’s late 1970s punk rock scene. Rob is always interested in new ideas and enjoys collaboration with driven, creative people. He lives in Hamtramck with his wife & best friend, Erin Carr.
Mei-Ling McNamara
Rachael Bongiorno
Von Diaz
Aaron Leaf
Manolia Charlotin
Sarah Kramer
Diego Graglia
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