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 - Producer, Radiolab

  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

  Prior to her career in radio, Ellen worked in coral reef conservation, spent a couple of years officiating union elections, and scooped more Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream professionally than you could eat without inducing type 2 diabetes. As a radio producer she’s worked as a reporter, a talk show booker, a tape cutter, montage maker, a voice over artist, a news editor, and podcast guru. Currently, she is Radiolab’s Executive Producer, and works frequently with The Takeaway on science news coverage.

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  Tim Howard - Production Assistant

  In college, Tim studied an antiquated communication medium called film.  From there he dove into music, recording albums under the name Soltero and touring the country.  His work history includes case work with migrant workers, building benches, making coffee drinks and selling records, renovating an old factory, teaching kids in Nicaragua, and moving numbers around on a screen for non-profits.  Working at Radiolab, it often occurs to him, is tops.

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  Robert Krulwich - Host, Radiolab

  NPR Science Correspondent, Robert Krulwich, joins Jad Abumrad in studio as co-host of 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. He has explored the structure of DNA with a banana, explained arbitrage by wearing Groucho glasses and illustrated the Texaco-Pennzoil battle with Barbie and Ken dolls. A Special Correspondent for ABC News, Krulwich appears regularly on Nightline and other news programs, including ABC News Tonight and Good Morning America.

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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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  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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  Soren Wheeler

  After fiddling around with literature and creative writing at the University of Wisconsin as an undergrad, Soren spent 10 years working with science teachers and writing about how kids learn science. While Soren found working with teachers and kids immensely rewarding, he eventually went to Johns Hopkins and got a masters in science writing, hoping to write things that normal people might actually read. He has since been happily distracted from that goal by making radio that not-so-normal people might listen to.