Sarah is a life-long radio junkie, having cut her teeth on Wordjazz and Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy sometime in the late 1970′s. She perfected her professional reporting and directing chops on KQED Radio’s Pacific Time and has also had pieces aired on The California Report and B-side Radio. She was the creative force behind KALX Radio’s short-lived but fabulous KALX Word Vocabulary Builder. Sarah is mom to wee ones Max and Owen.

Elizabeth Chur is a writer and radio producer living in San Francisco.  With Sandy Tolan and the UC-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, she co-produced “Reports from a Warming Planet,” which won a 2006 George Polk Award. She is a graduate of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies and Oberlin College. Elizabeth loves hiking, dancing, and jazz. She has a special talent for sleeping on airport floors and granite boulders.

Kristin Espeland Gourlay covers the environment for WFPL, Louisville’s NPR news station.  Her work has aired on NPR, Justice Talking, National Native News, and on stations throughout New York, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kentucky. Before coming to Kentucky, Kristin worked for Wyoming Public Radio, where she helped launch a weekly newsmagazine, which won the station a first place national PRNDI award.  Kristin has a particular fondness for going where the story is: she’s tromped through six feet of snow to find an antelope’s radio collar, danced with an elephant, and donned waders to trudge up a shoulder-high stream in search of endangered mussels.  She lives in Louisville, Kentucky but misses the three-woman ukulele band and Bulgarian women’s choir she helped start in New York.

Cyrus Farivar is a freelance technology journalist, a freelance radio reporter/producer, and is a wanderlust geek who lives in the city of Oakland, California. Previously, he has lived in Lyon (France), Saint-Louis (Senegal), Melbourne (Australia), and in a small village 20 km from Geneva (Switzerland).

He is currently working on a book, tentatively titled “The Internet of Elsewhere,” about the history and effects of the Internet on different countries around the world, including Senegal, Iran, Estonia and South Korea. It is due out from Rutgers University Press in early 2010.

He regularly reports for National Public Radio, The World (WGBH/PRI/BBC), and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He’ll gladly report anywhere he can find a good beer and free WiFi.

Scott Gurian is a reporter and producer living in the NYC area.  From 2004 to 2008, he was News Director at public radio station KGOU in Norman, Oklahoma, where he covered everything from the Oklahoma City bombing anniversary and natural disasters — of which Oklahoma has a lot — to small town catfish and rattlesnake festivals.  He’s also produced a daily, national news magazine program in Washington, DC and reported for a variety of stations and networks, including NPR and the BBC.  Scott grew up in New Jersey, attended Emerson College in Boston and the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine, where he studied radio documentary.  He loves traveling and hopes to one day be a foreign correspondent.

Rene Gutel is an award-winning journalist based in Phoenix, Arizona. She contributes stories regularly to National Public Radio and other radio programs across the country. Rene has won journalism awards in Alaska, Arizona, Pennsylvania, and five regional “Edward R. Murrow” awards from the Radio-Television News Directors Association. In February 2009, the Associated Press, Television and Radio Association awarded her two “Mark Twain” awards for sports and feature reporting.

Aaron Henkin used to teach at a residential facility for emotionally disturbed teenagers. In 2001, he made the natural transition to a career in public radio. Aaron is a co-creator and co-producer of Baltimore’s weekly arts program, ‘The Signal,’ on WYPR.

Jude Joffe-Block tried life on the East Coast and south of the border before returning back home to her native East Bay.  She is now pursuing a Master’s degree at the Graduate School of Journalism, where she is focusing on radio and multimedia reporting.  Most recently, she has produced audio slideshows for the Associated Press’ Latin America desk.

Tamara Keith is B-Side’s host and senior producer.  Her work can also be heard on NPR, Marketplace and The Environment Report.

She started her career in public radio before she was old enough to drive. 6 cars and hundreds of thousands of miles later, she has worked for KQED, KPCC, WOSU and a variety of national media outlets. As a teenager, Tamara was a regular essayist for NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a first place trophy from the Society of Environmental Journalists for “Outstanding Story Radio.” She is no stranger to disasters, covering destructive wildfires in California and most recently the coal ash spill in Tennessee.

In her spare time, Tamara is a recreational triathlete and half marathon runner. Her husband is a cancer researcher and veterinarian.

Judah Leblang is a Medford, Massachusetts-based writer and  storyteller, who grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. His essays and  commentaries have been broadcast on National Public Radio stations  around the US, and published in various newspapers and magazines in Boston and Cleveland. His column, “Life in the Slow Lane,” appears  regularly in Bay Windows, a Boston-area weekly newspaper. His first book, “Finding My Place: One Man’s Journey from Cleveland to Boston and Beyond” will be published in November 2009.  You can learn more about Judah on his website: http://www.judahleblang.com