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Vani Subramony is a graduate of Sycamore High School and Case Western Reserve University. She will attend Northwestern University in the fall.

Marcia Snyder is a retired certified nurse-midwife who, besides listening to NPR, enjoys travel, photography, cooking, and watercolor painting.

Kaleigh Ibarra is a Community Corps Correspondent for WNIJ. Ibarra is a student at the University of Missouri-Columbia studying journalism with an emphasis on reporting and writing. She also plays the piccolo in Marching Mizzou during the football season and recently joined Mini Mizzou for basketball and volleyball season. She is from Sycamore, Illinois.

Wendy Larson Bennett is the current President of the Board of Trustees for the Unitarian Universalist Church of Rockford. She is a happily retired prosecutor from the Winnebago County State’s Attorney’s Office and a former member of the Winnebago County Mental Health Board.

Marilyn Geewax is a contributor to NPR.

NPR commentator Bonny Wolf grew up in Minnesota and has worked as a reporter and editor at newspapers in New Jersey and Texas. She taught journalism at Texas A&M University where she encouraged her student, Lyle Lovett, to give up music and get a real job. Wolf gives better advice about cooking and eating, and contributes her monthly food essay to NPR's award-winning Weekend Edition Sunday. She is also a contributing editor to "Kitchen Window," NPR's Web-only, weekly food column.

Arditi joins RIPR after more than three decades as a reporter, including 28 years at the ProJo, where she has covered a variety of beats, most recently health care. A native of New York City, she graduated from Oberlin College with a degree in government and has worked as a staff writer for The Center for Investigative Reporting in Washington, D.C. and as a reporter for the former Holyoke Transcript-Telegram in Massachusetts.