Just Between Us Creators & Guests

Allison Beth Raskin is a writer, director, comedian, YouTuber, podcaster, mental health advocate, and works with comedy YouTube channel, Just Between Us.

Gabrielle "Gaby" Teresa Dunn is an American writer, actor, journalist, comedian, activist, and podcaster. She started a podcast with the intent of exposing and analyzing money problems that most people face, yet no one talks about. The podcast was called Bad with Money with Gaby Dunn and is part of the Panoply podcast network.

Melisa D. Monts is producer and on-air personality.

Simon Kent Fung is a podcaster and creator of the Dear Alana podcast.

Steven Hassan is a mental health counselor who has written on the subject of mind control and how to help people who have been harmed by the experience. He has been helping people exit destructive cults since 1976. Hassan has appeared on the TV news programs 60 Minutes, Nightline, and Dateline. He is a published author and lecturer.

Meg Appelgate is the CEO of Unsilenced.

Mal Blum is an American songwriter, musician, writer and performer from New York. Blum has released six full-length albums, most recently Pity Boy in 2019.

Dedeker Winston is a relationship coach, writer, and advocate for polyamory & non-traditional relationships.

Emma Gray is a senior reporter focused on women's issues at HuffPost and the author of A Girl's Guide To Joining The Resistance. She is also the co-host of the Bachelor-themed podcast, Here To Make Friends.

Charles Duhigg is a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and non-fiction author. He was a reporter for The New York Times and is the author of two books on habits and productivity, titled The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business and Smarter Faster Better.

Symphony Sanders is a Chicago-based actor, aerialist, and vlogger. She voices Tamika Flynn on the popular podcast Welcome to Night Vale, is a cohost on Good Morning Nightvale, and has been featured on My Fair City and Chuck Tingle’s Pounded in the Butt by my Podcast. When not recording for a show or touring she is an aerialist and fitness instructor!

Maya Williams is a poet.

Ashley Ray is a comedian, writer, and podcast host. Based in Chicago, she has contributed as a writer to acclaimed television shows like The AV Club and The New Yorker and is recognized for her stand-up comedy that explores topics ranging from race and identity to mental health with wit and honesty. Ray is also the host of the podcast TV, I Say with Ashley Ray, where she analyzes television trends and interviews industry professionals.

Dr. Lily Kay Ross is a feminist writer, educator, and violence prevention facilitator. Her work takes a feminist approach to theorizing ethics in psychedelic spaces, especially with regard to sexual misconduct, abuses of power, charlatans, and the dominance of traditional gender norms in psychedelic spaces.Ross's research looks at how neoliberal discourses burden survivors of sexual violence with the directive to individually overcome social problems, and the trouble with posttraumatic growth. Her other projects advance best practice and evidence-based policies and responses to sexual harm.Ross received her M.Div. from Harvard Divinity School, and her Ph.D. in Gender Studies from the University of Otago.

Laura Stassi is a creator and host of Dating While Gray.

Becky Albertalli is an author.

Ayesha Barenblat is a social entrepreneur, activist, educator, and Founder & CEO at Remake.

Dr. Devon Price is a social psychologist, author, and professor at Loyola University of Chicago’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies.

Hank Green is an entrepreneur, musician, educator, producer, vlogger, and author.