Gabrielle Guthrie has a Masters in Design from Stanford University. She is co-founder of the women-centered design start up, Moxxly. She lives and works in San Francisco.

Anna Kusmer was a 2018 KQED News intern.  She has worked as an ecologist and a hamburger flipper.  She is also a freelance writer with stories appearing in NPR and PBS.

April Dembosky is the health correspondent for KQED News and a regular contributor to NPR. She specializes in covering altered states of mind, from postpartum depression to methamphetamine-induced psychosis to the insanity defense. Her investigative series on insurance companies sidestepping mental health laws won multiple awards, including first place in beat reporting from the national Association of Health Care Journalists. She is the recipient of numerous other prizes and fellowships, including a national Edward R. Murrow award for investigative reporting, a Society of Professional Journalists award for long-form storytelling, and a Carter Center Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism. Dembosky reported and produced Soundtrack of Silence, an audio documentary about music and memory that is currently being made into a feature film by Paramount Pictures. Before joining KQED in 2013, Dembosky covered technology and Silicon Valley for The Financial Times of London, and contributed business and arts stories to Marketplace and The New York Times. She got her undergraduate degree in philosophy from Smith College and her master's in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a classically trained violinist and proud alum of the first symphony orchestra at Burning Man.

Aurora MacRae-Crerar is delighted to join the KQED Science team as a 2016 AAAS Mass Media Fellow. She is motivated by the desire to understand how small things cause big change--whether that is microbes and their impact on global warming or individual human efforts and their collective power for societal change. She holds a PhD in Biology from the University of Pennsylvania.

Anica John runs her own consulting company advising Silicon Valley technology companies on business strategy and marketing. Prior to her consulting practice, Anica founded two technology companies, and most recently served as Chief Operating Officer of an infant wearables startup.

Almetria Vaba  is the director for education partnerships and distribution at KQED.  In her role, she leads collaborative efforts with education agencies, public media stations and other non profit organizations.

Amy Mostafa is a former KQED Radio News intern covering Berkeley and other Bay Area issues. A Cal alumna, she currently co-produces a weekly KALX show titled Women Hold Up Half the Sky.

Amy Standen (@amystanden) is co-host of #TheLeapPodcast (subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher!) and host of KQED and PBSDigital Studios' science video series, Deep Look.  Her science radio stories appear on KQED and NPR. Email her at astanden@kqed.org