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Elsa Glover is a national board-certified teacher who has taught in Kaneland schools for the last 20 some years.

Jodi Ritter is Program Assistant for a Master's program at a local university. She is a Rockford native and an avid NPR listener who graduated from NIU with a Master of Public Health in 2016.

Deborah Booth retired in Fall 2014 from NIU, where she was the director of External Programs for the College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Marnie O. Mamminga has been a professional essayist and features writer for more than 20 years.

Mahesh Subramony is professor of management at Northern Illinois University, where he conducts research related to the human side of services. His tenure as an NPR listener has been long and includes MPR, WPR, and for the last 12 years - WNIJ.

Jess Mador comes to WYSO from Knoxville NPR-station WUOT, where she created an interactive multimedia health storytelling project called TruckBeat, one of 15 projects around the country participating in AIR's Localore: #Finding Americainitiative. Before TruckBeat, Jess was an independent public radio journalist based in Minneapolis. She’s also worked as a staff reporter and producer at Minnesota Public Radio in the Twin Cities, and produced audio, video and web stories for a variety of other news outlets, including NPR News, APM, and PBS television stations. She has a Master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York. She loves making documentaries and telling stories at the intersection of journalism, digital and social media.