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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.

Diane Orson is CT Public Radio's Deputy News Director and Southern Connecticut Bureau Chief. For years, hers was the first voice many Connecticut residents heard each day as the local host of Morning Edition. She is a longtime reporter and contributor to National Public Radio. Her stories have been heard on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition and Here And Now. She is the co-recipient of a Peabody Award. Her work has been recognized by the Connecticut Society for Professional Journalists and the Associated Press, including the Ellen Abrams Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism and the Walt Dibble Award for Overall Excellence.

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.

Adelina Lancianese is the assistant producer for the NPR Story Lab, a creative studio that fosters newsroom experimentation and incubates new podcasts. At the Story Lab, Lancianese works primarily on investigative, long-form projects, and also helps organize the annual Story Lab Workshop for the development of new independent and Member station podcasts.

Rick Karr contributes reports on the arts to NPR News. He is a correspondent for the weekly PBS public affairs show Bill Moyers Journal and teaches radio journalism at Columbia University.

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.

Steve Newborn is WUSF's assistant news director as well as a reporter and producer at WUSF covering environmental issues and politics in the Tampa Bay area.

Emma Peaslee is a 2020-21 Kroc Fellow. Before coming to NPR, she reported for Atlanta's member station, WABE. She covered public forums about toxic chemicals leaking into neighborhoods, the world's largest 10K race, and the federal government's plan to resume executions. Peaslee has a master's degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where her work received the 2020 Edward R. Murrow Award for best student newscast. She is a Minnesota native.