Aaron Mahnke is the creator of the hit podcast Lore, Executive Producer of the Lore television series from Amazon, and author of The World of Lore book series, published by Del Rey/ Penguin Random House. He’s also the Executive Producer and creator of Aaron Mahnke’s Cabinet of Curiosities and Unobscured, produced in partnership with iHeartRadio.
Born and raised in Illinois, Aaron now lives with his wife and children on the historic North Shore of Boston, where he writes and records full-time.
Dylan Marron is an IFP Gotham Award & Drama Desk-nominated writer, performer, and video maker. He is the voice of Carlos on the hit podcast Welcome to Night Vale, an alum of the New York Neo Futurists, and the creator of Every Single Word (Tumblr's "Most Viral Blog" of 2015; Shorty Award Nominee), a video series that edits down popular films to only feature the words spoken by people of color.
As a writer & correspondent at Seriously.tv Dylan created, hosted, and produced Sitting in Bathrooms with Trans People, Shutting Down Bullsh*t, and the Unboxing series.Â
He hosts & produces Conversations with People Who Hate Me, a podcast where he calls up the people behind negative comments on the internet. It was selected as a Podcast Pick by USA Today & The Guardian, named "the timeliest podcast" by FastCompany, and won a Webby Award.
Rabia Chaudry is an attorney and a partner at the Chaudry and Anwer Immigration Law Firm based in Northern Virginia, where she supervises asylum cases and immigration appeals. She is well known as the co-host and co-producer of the hit criminal justice podcast Undisclosed, with nearly 300 million downloads, the author of the NY Times Bestselling book, "Adnan's Story", and an Executive Producer of the HBO docuseries "The Case Against Adnan Syed".
Chaudry is a recent Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), where she researched the intersection of religion and violent extremism. Prior to this, Chaudry served as an International Security Fellow at the New America Foundation (NAF), where she led a Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) community project in partnership with Google, Facebook, and Twitter. Her work at NAF focused on the empowerment of American Muslim communities in social media advocacy. Chaudry also is the founder of the Safe Nation Collaborative, a CVE law enforcement training firm. She is a Vanguard Board Member of the Aspen Institute, Fellow of the Truman National Security Project, a Fellow of the Shalom Hartman Institute, and on the Board of the Muslim Jewish Advisory Council. She is a frequent writer and public speaker on issues of criminal justice, national security, civil rights, and faith.
Evan Narcisse is a journalist and critic who writes about video games, comic books, movies and TV, often focusing on the intersection of blackness and pop culture. He is a senior staff writer at io9, having previously written for The Atlantic, Time Magazine, and Kotaku. He’s taught a course on video game journalism at New York University and appeared as an expert guest on CNN and NPR. He's also the author of the Rise of the Black Panther for Marvel Comics, featuring the superhero who took the world by storm in 2018 and called one of the years's best graphic novels by Newsweek and Polygon.
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