Show Staff

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  Jad Abumrad - Host, Radiolab

  The son of a scientist and a doctor, Jad Abumrad did most of his growing up in Tennessee, before studying creative writing and music composition at Oberlin College in Ohio. Following graduation, Abumrad wrote music for films, and reported and produced documentaries for a variety of local and national public radio programs, including On the Media, PRI's Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen, Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and WNYC's "24 Hours at the Edge of Ground Zero".

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  Sean Cole

  Sean Cole came to Radiolab from the American Public Media program Marketplace where he reported on everything from the rental market in Dubai to a new type of hand gel laced with nicotine. He’s done stories for lots of different public radio programs including All Things Considered, Only a Game, Studio 360 and This American Life where he’s also worked on staff. Sean got his start at the Boston NPR-affiliate WBUR as a newsroom intern. He spent nine years there, ending up as a reporter and producer for the award-winning documentary series Inside Out. He writes poems, some of which have been published. And, yes, he wrote this bio.

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  Brenna Farrell

  Brenna is a writer, radio fiend, and filmmaker who lives in Brooklyn. She studied History and Literature at Harvard, took her love of roustabouting on the road as a travel writer, and came home to New York as a public radio producer and independent filmmaker. She hails from the Adirondack Mountains, where she makes frequent getaways for ice-fishing, hunting, and chopping wood.

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  Ellen Horne

  Ellen, promptly after reading the "How to Make Radio" comic book, set out to learn how to do just that. She’s still learning, although in the course of the last decade she has worked as a spot news producer, a features reporter, a talk-show booker, a montage maker, an announcer, a podcast consultant, and a news editor. She joined Radiolab in 2003 as a volunteer, and is now the Executive Producer. Lately, she’s been obsessed with transposing Radiolab into more visual places – like theaters and apps. She’s overwhelmed with gratitude for the amazing team she gets to play with every day at Radiolab.

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  Tim Howard

  Tim came to Radiolab in 2009 after several years at non-profits, immigrant outreach agencies, coffeeshops, and record stores, as well as a stint doing volunteer work in Central America and Mexico. He continues to write and record music under the name Soltero, which can be heard here.

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  Dylan Keefe

  Still recovering from when Rolling Stone called him a “Rock n roll Judge Reinhold,” Dylan came to Radiolab after selling his soul at the crossroads of Marcy Playground Ally and Calle de WNYC. Carrying only a Fender P Bass and a shotgun microphone, Dylan was met at midnight first by Brooke Gladstone of On the Media, then John Hockenberry of The Takeaway and finally by a curly haired demon named Jad. All of whom detuned his bass and redirected his mic. Having actually wanted Carl Sagan to show up, Dylan decided the curly guy was close enough. Now he owes him his soul.

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  Robert Krulwich - Host, Radiolab

  Robert Krulwich has been called “the most inventive network reporter in television” by TV Guide.

  His specialty is explaining complex subjects, science, technology, economics, in a style that is clear, compelling and entertaining. On television he has explored the structure of DNA using a banana; on radio he created an Italian opera, “Ratto Interesso” to explain how the Federal Reserve regulates interest rates; he has pioneered the use of new animation on ABC’s Nightline and World News Tonight.

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  Lynn Levy

  Before landing in radio, Lynn studied film at Wesleyan University and worked for several years in documentary film and television production.  Past projects have allowed her to hang out with UFO enthusiasts in Texas, watch robot battles in Georgia, and eat fantastic BBQ all over the place.  Now she's having new adventures as part of the Radiolab crew.  She spends a lot of her spare time admiring the dioramas in the American Museum of Natural History, and sometimes makes shoebox-sized dioramas of her own.

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  Andy Mills

  Before working for Radiolab, Andy had a lot of jobs, from being a research journalist in Southern Sudan to making fancy lattes in Denver, Colorado. To date he’s been a dishwasher, groundskeeper, paper boy, photographer, fund raiser, camp counselor, fast food burger-flipper, janitor, gardener, roofer, bus boy, missionary, ice cream scooper, barista, nanny, assistant professor, monk, equipment manager, waiter, television production assistant, secretary, painter and K-Mart Santa Clause. Now, when not producing stories for the radio, he writes short stories, performs live storytelling multi-media shows, and rides his bicycle all over New York City.

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  Malissa O'Donnell

  Malissa spent far too much time during college at WVKR, Vassar College’s radio station, as Director of News + Public Affairs and then as General Manager. Post-grad, she worked with the likes of Blue Man Group, New York Theatre Workshop, 101 Productions and New York Stage and Film, and MFAed in Theatre Management & Producing from Columbia University. Now she’s back (like a data track) to support the mind-boggling awesomeness that is Radiolab. Her best friends (who are a plasma physicist, chemical engineer, astrophysicist/computer scientist, doctor, chemist, acoustics physicist and another doctor), finally think she’s cool.

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  Pat Walters

  Before coming to Radiolab, Pat lived in Memphis and wrote magazine stories that addressed deep and profound questions like: Does a full beer bottle have a better chance of cracking your skull than an empty one? And: Do cows with names produce more milk? Serious, heavy stuff. He’s written for The New York Times Magazine and Popular Science, among others, and he's a former National Geographic explorer. But nothing quite compares to Radiolab. In the words of the great Lulu Miller, the stuff is “Miracle-Gro for the mind.” Pat agrees wholeheartedly. And he’s thrilled to be manufacturing it.

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  Molly Webster

  Best described as someone who likes to "sit in the woods and stare," Molly fell in love with science in the ponds, wildlife and fields of Ohio. She studied biology as an undergrad, and then spent time living on couches searching for a destiny she could only describe as "writing about science," at which point Molly wound her way to NYU's science reporting program to become a journalist. As one, she's had the jam-packed experience of reporting and producing stories for radio, magazine and Live events, including Scientific American and National Geographic Adventure; the World Science Festival; and WNYC's The Takeaway and Freakonomics Radio. It feels pretty surreal to call Radiolab home, but that's not stopping her from saying that it's so.

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  Soren Wheeler - Senior Producer, Radiolab

  Soren Wheeler is the Senior Producer at Radiolab, where he plays a variety of roles, including producer, editor, and reporter. He also manages the production staff, and oversees the development of future content.