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Grant Barrett is an American lexicographer, dictionary editor, and co-host of the nationally syndicated public radio show A Way with Words. Known for his expertise in slang and emerging English, he has led editorial teams at Dictionary.com and contributed to dozens of major dictionary projects, including works for Oxford, Cambridge, and Collins. He’s the author of Perfect English Grammar and several dictionaries of slang and political language, and co-founder of Wordnik.com.

Molly oversees the production of Big Picture Science. She has worked as a science journalist for the BBC, including World Service, Radio 4 and Science/Nature Online. She has also written for New Scientist. She taught radio writing and podcast production for ten years at the University of California, Santa Cruz Science Writing Program.

Seth is the Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute, in Mountain View, California. He has an undergraduate degree in physics from Princeton University, and a doctorate in astronomy from the California Institute of Technology. For much of his career, Seth conducted radio astronomy research on galaxies, and has published approximately fifty papers in professional journals. He also founded and ran a company producing computer animation for TV.

Jenifer Hixson is a Senior Director at The Moth and one of the hosts of the Peabody Award winning Moth Radio Hour. Each year, she works with hundreds of storytellers, helping them identify pivotal moments in their lives, including missteps, breakthroughs, leaps of faith, and difficult chapters, and shape those experiences into stories for the stage.

Meg Bowles is a Senior Director and Co Host of the Peabody Award winning Moth Radio Hour. Like many members of The Moth staff, she began as a volunteer in 1997, helping curate early Mainstage events and teaching storytelling workshops. In 2002 she left to work for Discovery Communications, but when Moth Founder George Dawes Green invited her to return in 2005 to help curate the Mainstage, she could not turn it down.

Suzanne Rust is a Senior Curatorial Producer and Host of the Peabody Award winning Moth Radio Hour. A noted magazine writer and editor, she joined The Moth in 2018 in the newly created role of Senior Curatorial Producer. In this position, she seeks out a wide range of voices, including those that are under represented and undiscovered, and works with them to share their true personal stories on Moth stages around the world.

Chloe Salmon is a Producer and Director at The Moth and is also an instructor for The Moth’s Community and Education programs. The Moth first entered her life as a steady companion during long drives across her home state of Kansas. Today, she takes great joy in the behind the scenes work that helps bring hundreds of stories to audiences around the world.

For Jodi Powell, stories are part of the shared fabric of humanity. She connects her own memories of her mother’s home cooking, the bumpy country roads of her Jamaican childhood, and the triumphs of elementary school rubber band dealing to the stories she hears from others. Through that connection, she finds the threads that link individual experiences to a larger human story.

George Dawes Green, founder of The Moth and Unchained, is an internationally celebrated author. His first novel, The Caveman’s Valentine, won the Edgar Award and was adapted into a feature film starring Samuel L. Jackson. His novel The Juror became an international bestseller in more than twenty languages and was the basis for the film starring Demi Moore and Alec Baldwin. Ravens was named one of the best books of 2009 by the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Daily Mail of London, and several other publications. He lives in Savannah, Georgia.

Jay Allison is an independent journalist and a longtime leader in public broadcasting. He is a host and producer of The Moth Radio Hour and has created hundreds of documentary programs and series. Over the past 35 years, he has been a frequent contributor to NPR news programs and This American Life, and he is a six time Peabody Award winner.