Radio Times Creators & Guests

Emily Baker-White is a technology journalist. Currently, she reports for Forbes.Baker-White recieved her B.A. Politics and Viola Performance from Oberlin College and her J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Rebecca Leber is a climate journalist. Currently, she is a Senior Reporter for Vox.Previously, Leber covered the environment for Mother Jones magazine, edited environmental news and political coverage for Grist, and was a staff writer at The New Republic. She also serves on the board of directors for the Society of Environmental Journalists.

Cory Efram Doctorow is a blogger, journalist, and science fiction author. He serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing.

Nicole Krauss an author.Krauss's fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, and Granta's Best American Novelists Under 40, and has been collected in several Best American Short Stories anthologies. Her first novel, "Man Walks into a Room," was published in 2002.Krause received her B.A. in English from Stanford University and her M.A. in Art History from Oxford University.

Amie Ferris-Rotman is a journalist. She is currently the Moscow correspondent for the Washington Post.Prior to working for the Washington Post, Ferris-Rotman was a Moscow correspondent for Reuters. She has covered Russia for The Wall Street Journal and Foreign Policy, Afghanistan for Reuters, and the Ukraine conflict for The Atlantic, Politico, and Die Zeit. She was a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University.Ferris-Rotman was born and raised in London. She received her B.A. and M.A. in Russian studies from University College London.

Holly Otterbein is a reporter and the National Political Reporter for POLITICO.Previously, Otterbein was a staff reporter at NPR station WHYY, where she covered Philadelphia's city government and schools. Before that, she was a staff writer for the Philadelphia City Paper.Otterbein was born and raised in Baltimore.

Sabrina Corlette, J.D. is a health insurance law expert and researcher. Currently, she is a research professor at the Georgetown University School of Public Policy, where she founded and co-directs the Center on Health Insurance Reforms. She directs research on health reform issues with a focus on state and federal regulation of private health insurance. Corlette has testified before the U.S. Congress and appears in the news media on emerging health care issues. She has published dozens of papers relating to the regulation of private health insurance and health insurance marketplaces.Prior to joining the Georgetown faculty, Corlette was Director of Health Policy Programs at the National Partnership for Women & Families, where she provided policy expertise and direction for the organization’s advocacy on health care reform. From 1997 to 2001, she worked for the U.S. Senate Health Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, where she served as health legislative assistant to Senator Tom Harkin. After leaving the Hill, Corlette served as an attorney at the law firm Hogan Lovells, where she advised clients on health care law and policy.Corlette is a member of the D.C. Bar and received her J.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, and her undergraduate degree from Harvard University.

Jon Ehrens is a podcast and music producer. Currently, he produces audio for Vox Media.Ehrens has been interested in production and sound design since he first started working with sound boards and audio production software at age 14.Ehrens received his B.S. in American Studies and Communications from Goucher College.

Frank Langfitt is a London Correspondent at NPR, writer, and author of the book, “The Shanghai Free Taxi."

Michael Hobbes is an American journalist and a former reporter for HuffPost. He is also the co-host of the podcast Maintenance Phase with Aubrey Gordon and the former co-host of You're Wrong About

James McCloskey is a lay minister and founder of Centurion Ministries.In 1980, while studying to become an ordained minister at Princeton Theological Seminary McCloskey, did fieldwork at a prison. He met a man serving a life sentence for murder and who McCloskey believed was innocent. McCloskey took a leave from seminary to work on and win his case. McCloskey went on to found the innocence project Centurion Ministries.McCloskey's memor, "When Truth Is All You Have," was published in 2020.

Emily Tamkin is a freelance writer and reporter. Previously, Tamkin wrote for The Washington Post's WorldViews section. She has been a foreign affairs reporter at BuzzFeed News and Foreign Policy. Her writing has appeared in The Economist, Politico, and Slate. She has conducted independent research on Soviet dissidence in Moscow, Tbilisi, and, as a Fulbright grantee, in Bremen, Germany.Tamkin's first book, "The Influence of Soros: Politics, Power, and the Struggle for Open Society" was published in 2020.Tamkin received her B.A. in Russian literature from Columbia University, and her M.Phil. in Russian and East European studies from the University of Oxford.

Heather McGhee is a political commentator and strategist.

Gregory Pardlo is an American poet, writer, and professor. His poems, reviews, and translations have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Callaloo, Poet Lore, Harvard Review, Ploughshares, and on National Public Radio. His work has been praised for its “language simultaneously urban and highbrow… snapshots of a life that is so specific it becomes universal.” In 2016 Pardlo accepted a tenure-track faculty position with the English department at his alma mater.

Richard Blanco is a poet, public speaker, author, and civil engineer.

Nina Feldman is a health reporter whose work focuses the opioid epidemic, disparities in health care, and the coronavirus pandemic. Currently, she reports for covers WHYY in Philadelphia.Previously, Feldman worked in public radio in New Orleans.

Dr. Ina Park is the author of Strange Bedfellows: Adventures in the Science, History and Surprising Secrets of STDs.

Dr. Michael J. Koplow is an expert on Israel. Currently, he is the chief policy officer of Israel Policy Forum and a senior research fellow of the Kogod Research Center at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. He writes Israel Policy Forum’s weekly "Koplow Column" and edits Israel Policy Exchange, which is a leading source for commentary and analysis on Israel and American Jewry.Previously, Koplow was the founding program director of the Israel Institute.Koplow's work has appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the Atlantic, and the Forward.Koplow received his B.A. from Brandeis University, his J.D. from New York University, his A.M. in Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University, and his Ph.D. in Government from Georgetown University.

Alexis Madrigal is a journalist. Currently, he is a staff writer for The Atlantic, where he is deputy editor of TheAtlantic.com.Previously, Madrigal worked for the Fusion Media Group, and before that, he wrote for Wired.In 2011, Madrigal's first book, "Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology" was published.In 2014, Madrigal spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival alongside Tony Fadell as part of the panel discussion, "A New and Promising Energy Future". In 2017, he hosted an 8-part audio documentary on containerization called Containers.Madrigal received his B.A. in English from Harvard University.