Bad Batch Creators & Guests

Laura Beil has more than 20 years of experience in health and science writing. She has received medical journalism awards from the Association of Health Care Journalists and the American Society of Journalists and Authors. She began her career in newspapers, and was the longtime medical reporter for the Dallas Morning News. In 2006, She left the world of daily journalism to write mostly for magazines. She is a contributor at Men’s Health, and a correspondent for Science News magazine. While she specializes in matters of health and science, she has also written about gun-toting liberals for D Magazine, and was the writer-reporter of the “Thugs” episode for the NPR series This American Life. She grew up in the piney woods of East Texas, but now lives outside Dallas.

Scott Velasquez is the Founder/Music Supervisor at Frisson Sync, a music supervision company specializing in music supervision and licensing for podcasts.

Creator of OMINOUS THRILL fiction anthology podcast, creative sound designer, and director.

Hernan Lopez is the Founder and former CEO of Wondery, the fastest-growing storytelling podcast network in the world. Launched in 2016, Wondery became best known for its gripping narrative podcasts including Dirty John, Dr Death, American History Tellers, The Shrink Next Door, Joe Exotic, and Business Wars. While at Wondery, Hernan executive produced several TV show adaptations of podcasts, including WeCrashed, Joe vs. Carole, and American Sports Story. After Amazon acquired Wondery in 2021, Lopez co-founded Danvas, a startup company that is revolutionizing the art world through its high-quality, innovative digital art displays. Lopez has been a featured speaker at SXSW, Promax, Natpe, CES, The Festival Of Media, WSJ Tech Live, The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, The INMA World Congress, and numerous global investor conferences. He has been published by Entrepreneur, Ad Age, and Fast Company.

Morgan is the creator and host of Burst Your Bubble, a podcast that looks at -isms and -phobias in pop culture, from racism in a movie to homophobia in a TV show or sexism in a song. Combining education and entertainment, the show has a media literacy lens with a dash of history thrown in.