Unexplainable Creators & Guests

Rosalind Resnick is a real estate investor, developer, and property manager in New York's West Village.

Byrd Pinkerton is a reporter and producer. Currently, she is a reporter and Podcast Producer for Vox. She has produced and reported for three seasons of the podcasts "The Impact" and "Future Perfect," as well as episodes of "Today Explained," "Reset," and "Worldly."Previously, Pinkerton was a news assistant for NPR, where she produced pieces for "Weekend All Things Considered," "Morning Edition," and "Weekend Edition," and wrote for the NPR Education Desk.Pinkerton received her B.A. in German and Media & Aesthetics from Princeton University.

Noam Hassenfeld is a reporter, audio producer, and musician. He currently reports and produces, scores, and sound-designs for Vox Media.Prior to working for Vox, he was a producer for NPR's "Latino USA." In addition to his news work, he is a member of the band Three Thousand Rivers.Hassenfeld received a degree in Comparative Religion and Music from Harvard. He has also worked as a video game composer, a film composer, and a third grade science teacher.

Brian Resnick is a science journalist. Currently, he is the Editorial Manager at Science Magazine.Previously, Resnick was the senior science reporter for Vox Media. Before that, he was a staff correspondent at National Journal, where he wrote two cover stories for the (now defunct) weekly print magazine, and reported on breaking news and politics.

Meradith Hoddinott is a podcast producer and sound designer who specializes in stories that explore food and science. Currently, she produces for Vox Media, where she is the Supervising Producer of their podcast "Unexplainable."Previously, Hoddinott was at ESPN, where she produced their podcast "30 for 30." She has written and produced audio stories for Heritage Radio Network, 99% Invisible and KALW’s Crosscurrents. In 2015, she founded the podcast "Nordic Food Lab Radio" in Copenhagen.

Mandy P. Nguyen is a producer and journalist.Previously, Nguyen was a Producer at Vox. She has also produced for NPR station KQED and KTOO.Nguyen received her B.A. in History from Minerva University.

Matt Collette is an executive producer for Trump, Inc. podcast at WNYC Studios.

Diane Hodson is a freelance filmmaker, podcast story editor, and producer. She is also an Assistant Professor and Podcasting and Audio Storytelling Area Coordinator at Hofstra University.Hodson has worked with Apple, Jigsaw Productions, Pineapple Street Media, and Midroll to produce and story edit narrative nonfiction podcasts, including "Missing Richard Simmons," "Heaven's Gate," "No Man's Land," and "Running from COPS."

Jillian Weinberger is the senior producer and host of The Impact Podcast on Vox.

Jorge Just is Executive Editor at Gimlet Media.

Gabrielle Berbey is a documentary filmmaker, multimedia journalist, editor, and producer. Currently, she is a producer at Vox Media, where she produces for their podcast "Today, Explained."Previously, Berbey was an Associate Producer at WNYC, where she produced "The Experiment." Before that, she was an Assistant Editor at PBS, where she worked on Ken Burns' series about Muhammad Ali, and as a Production Assistant for the show "Frontline."Berbey received her B.A. in Film, Video, and Photographic Arts and Human Rights from Bard College.

Marianne McCune is a freelance journalist and an audio producer and editor. She has produced a dozen audio documentaries about San Francisco for the app Detour.Previously, McCune was a reporter and producer for the NPR show "Embedded: Buffalo Extreme." She was a senior producer for New York Magazine audio, and a Senior Producer for the NPR show "The United States of Anxiety."McCune founded Radio Rookies, WNYC's award-winning series of stories from New York teenagers.

Umair Irfan is a journalist. He currently reports on climate change, energy, and policy for Vox Media.Previously, Irfan reported on global warming Climatewire, part of E&E News.Irfan received his M.S. in journalism from Columbia University, and his B.Sc. in biochemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Katherine Wells is a journalist and audio producer. Currently, she is the Executive Director of Audio at Vox Media.Previously, Wells was an executive producer of podcasts at The Atlantic, where she also hosted the podcast "Social Distance." She also produced the Gimlet Media show "Every Little Thing." She has worked with worked with Radiolab's "More Perfect," "Freakonomics Radio," "Bloomberg News," "The New Yorker Radio Hour," "Science Friday," and other shows.

Edie Widder is an oceanographer, marine biologist, author, and CEO & Senior Scientist at the Ocean Research & Conservation Association.

Douglas Smith is an associate professor at school of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy.

Julia Belluz is a journalist specializing in medicine, science, and public health. She is currently the health correspondent for Vox Media.Before working for Vox, Belluz was a Knight Science Journalism fellow at MIT. Her writing has appeared in a the BMJ, the Chicago Tribune, the Economist and Economist's Intelligent Life magazine, the Globe and Mail, the LA Times, Maclean’s, the National Post, Slate, and the Times of London.Belluz received her MSc from the London School of Economics. She is the recipient of numerous journalism awards, including the Balles Prize in Critical Thinking, the American Society of Nutrition Journalism Award, and several Canadian National Magazine Awards.

Chris French is a psychologist specialising in the psychology of paranormal beliefs and experiences, cognition and emotion. Currently, he is the head of the University of London's anomalistic Psychology Research Unit.French appears regularly in the media as an expert on testing paranormal claims.French has published over 150 articles and chapters covering a wide range of topics within psychology. He writes for the Guardian and The Skeptic magazine, and was Editor-in-Chief of The Skeptic magazine from 2001-2010.French's first book, "Anomalistic Psychology, co-authored with three other authors, was published in 2012. His second book, "Anomalistic Psychology: Exploring Paranormal Belief and Experience, co-authored with Anna Stone, was published in 2014.

Chelsea Conaboy is a health and science journalist.Conaboy started her career at the Concord Monitor in New Hampshire. She has reported on health care at the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Boston Globe. She led the features report at the Portland Press Herald in Maine.Conaboy's work has appeared in The New York Times, Mother Jones, Politico, the Boston Sunday Globe magazine, National Journal, The Week, ParentMap, and WBUR. Her first book, "Mother Brain: How Neuroscience Is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood," was published in 2022.