Outside/In Creators & Guests

Annie Ropeik is an environmental reporter. She reports on state economy and business issues for all Indiana Public Broadcasting stations, from a home base of WBAA.Previously, Ropeik was at KUCB in Alaska's Aleutian Islands, then at Delaware Public Media.Ropeik received her B.A. in Classics and Philosophy from Boston University.

Covering the environmental beat for NHPR, Sam’s reporting won him several awards, including two Edward R. Murrow awards, and he was also a 2013 Steinbrenner Institute Environmental Media Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University.He studied Politics and Spanish at Bates College, and before reporting was variously employed as a Spanish teacher, farmer, bicycle mechanic, ski coach, research assistant, a wilderness trip leader, and a technical supporter. He would have been crowned National Cross-country Ski Champion of Argentina, but was ineligible because he is not Argentinian.

Justine Paradis is an audio documentary producer and writer. She has contributed to award-winning podcasts including Love + Radio, Millennial, Outside/In, and Civics 101. Her work has also aired on NHPR, WGBH, and WCAI and appeared in N Magazine, Sound Magazine, Nantucket Today, and The Inquirer & Mirror.Before radio, she was gainfully employed as a bookseller, pizza-baker, gardener, and part-time clambake caterer.She is from Nantucket island and currently lives in Concord, New Hampshire.

Taylor Quimby started at NHPR as a weekend board operator in 2010, and has been ferociously climbing his way up the corporate ladder ever since. Currently, he is Senior Producer of Word of Mouth and Outside/In, as well as Broadcast Producer for the nationally distributed debate program, Intelligence Squared US. Individually, he has produced important stories about topics like MySpace, men’s underwear, and the zombie apocalypse. Taylor is a semi-lapsed comic-book nerd with a candy "problem", has played the ukulele since before it was cliché, and Sam likes to make fun of him because he runs in those weird-looking toe-shoes.

Hannah started at NHPR as an intern. She studied philosophy and theater at Bennington College, leveraged that into a number of high-powered careers---cold-pressing juices, working for arts non-profits, selling pottery to Carly Simon (true story, she smells amazing)---then got her MA in Journalism at NYU. She’s been producing stories for your ears ever since.

Jimmy Gutierrez comes to us direct from America's Dairyland -- Go Pack, Go! -- where he produced radio and told stories. He's produced radio stories for WUWM, WCAI, & Precious Lives, a podcast examining youth and gun violence, and is also a member of the Fall 2015 Transom Story Workshop.Before making radio, Jimmy was a Firefighter in Milwaukee, the bar manager for Braise restaurant, and official toilet cleaner for Milwaukee Public Schools. He and his wife are the proud companions of two charming cats, Potato & Juanito.

Erika Janik fell into radio after volunteering at Wisconsin Public Radio to screen listener calls. She co-founded and was the executive producer of “Wisconsin Life” on Wisconsin Public Radio for seven years before moving to New Hampshire to work at NHPR.Trained as a historian (in colonial American women's history), she’s the author of six books, including Pistols and Petticoats: 175 Years of Lady Detectives in Fact and Fiction, and freelances for a variety of publications.

Elizabeth Rush is a nonfiction author. Her work explores how humans adapt to changes enacted upon them by forces seemingly beyond their control, from ecological transformation to political revolution.Rush's work has appeared in the New York Times, Harpers, Granta, Creative Nonfiction, Orion, Guernica and others. Her first book, "Still Lifes from a Vanishing City: Essays and Photographs from Yangon, Myanmar," was published in 2015. Her second book, "Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore," was published in 2018 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction. Rush teaches Nonfiction Writing at Brown University.Rush received her B.A. in English from Reed College, and her M.F.A. from Southern New Hampshire University.

Ferris Jabr is a science journalist. He is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and Scientific American.Jabr's work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, New York, Foreign Policy, Wired, Outside, Slate, Pacific Standard, Hakai, Modern Farmer, Aeon, Lapham’s Quarterly, McSweeney’s, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, and in the anthology "The Best American Science."Jabr received his B.S. from Tufts University and his I have an M.A. in Journalism from New York University.

Peter Frick-Wright is a writer and radio maker. He has reported from Bosnia, Burma and Burundi. Peter also co-hosts the Outside Podcast.

Mary Roach is an American author, specializing in popular science and humor. As of 2016, she has published seven books,: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (2003), Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (2005) (published in some markets as Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife), Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (2008), Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (2010), My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places, Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (2013), and Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War (2016).

Stephanie Foo is a writer, a radio producer and an editor. She was a producer at This American Life for five years, and helped create Snap Judgment. Her book about healing from Complex PTSD, "WHAT MY BONES KNOW," will be coming out in February 2022. Foo taught high school journalism after college but wanted to make radio. She started the music podcast "Stagedive."Foo was an intern and then a producer at "Snap Judgment," then moved to "This American Life." She has also contributed to Reply All and 99% Invisible.Foo launched her own podcast, "Pilot." She was also the project lead on the "This American Life" app called Shortcut. Her culture criticism focuses on diversity in media.

Rebecca Lavoie the creator and co-hosts of several podcasts under their own mini-network Partners in Crime Media. She is the co-hosts of "Crime Writers On...".

Jenny Odell is an artist, writer, and educator. She wrote the book named, "How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy."

Annalee Newitz is a journalist, editor, and author of both fiction and nonfiction. They have written for the periodicals Popular Science and Wired.

Liat Berdugo is an artist and writer whose work investigates embodiment, labor, and militarization in relation to capitalism, technological utopianism, and the Middle East. Her work has been exhibited and screened at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), MoMA PS1 (New York), Transmediale (Berlin), V2_Lab for the Unstable Media (Rotterdam), and The Wrong Biennale (online), among others. Her writing appears in Rhizome, Temporary Art Review, Real Life, Places, and The Institute for Network Cultures, among others, and her latest book is The Weaponized Camera in the Middle East (Bloomsbury/I.B.Tauris, 2021). She is one half of the art collective, Anxious to Make, and is the co-founder of the Living Room Light Exchange, a monthly new media art series. Berdugo received an MFA from RISD and a BA from Brown University. She is currently an associate professor of Art + Architecture at the University of San Francisco. Berdugo lives and works in Oakland, CA.

Dr Lauret Savoy is a geologist, professor, writer, and photographer. Her work focuses on the intertwinings of natural and cultural histories, and the connections between the eroded physical world and the human experience. She is a Professor of Environmental Studies and Geology at Mount Holyoke College. Dr Savoy's newest book, "Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape," was published in 2016.Dr Savoy received her B.S. from Princeton University, her M.S. in Earth Sciences from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and her Ph.D. from Syracuse University. She is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.