The people behind the mic
Creator · Host · Executive Producer
Jennifer Strong is a journalist covering the impact of frontier technologies on the way we live and work. She's the creator of several top science and tech podcasts for newsrooms including ProPublica, The Wall Street Journal, and MIT Technology Review.
Her reporting has been recognized by awards juries dozens of times, including six Webby and three Ambie (Podcast Academy Award) nominations. Her narrative podcasts were finalist selections at the New York Festivals and a finalist for Podcast of the Year by The Drum Awards — for a taping she did inside an experimental fighter plane.
Strong previously led long-form audio for The Wall Street Journal, creating and hosting the first three seasons of WSJ's The Future of Everything. She has produced for NPR, PRI, and hosted panels at the United Nations General Assembly, SXSW, Web Summit, and the AI for Good Global Summit.
Producer
Emma Cillekens worked with ProPublica on the Peabody, Polk, and Goldsmith award-winning investigation Lost Mothers. She won a New York Emmy for Finding Sanctuary and led research and production for The Price of Climate at The Wall Street Journal.
She is co-creator of MIT Technology Review's AI podcast In Machines We Trust and served as managing producer of its Extortion Economy podcast with ProPublica. She began her career at daily newspapers in Australia before six years at Australian public radio. She's a graduate of NYU's Studio 20.
Sound Designer · Composer
Garret Lang is an audio producer, engineer, composer, and performer from Los Angeles. He established himself while working on the award-winning Marketplace from American Public Media, where he spent 8 years recording, mixing, and mastering for radio and the web.
He has worked extensively on the ESPN Daily Podcast, Inside Voice by Lake Bell and Pushkin Industries, and MIT Technology Review's In Machines We Trust. An accomplished bassist, he toured in 2022 with Grammy award-winner Madison Cunningham.
Art Director
Meg Marco has held senior editorial positions at ProPublica, The Wall Street Journal, and WIRED, and is the host and co-executive producer of The Extortion Economy, an investigative podcast from ProPublica and MIT Technology Review.
At ProPublica her team's work was honored with the 2021 National Magazine Award for Social Media, and she co-edited the pandemic coverage that was a finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
She is the author of Field Guide to the Apocalypse, a satirical survival guide published by Simon & Schuster in 2005 — well in advance of the actual end times.
Intern
Niamh McAuliffe is a journalist, podcast editor, sound designer, and copy-editor who has worked on multiple shows and books since graduating cum laude from Hunter College.
In the summer of 2022 she received a Campus Consortium Reporting Fellowship from the Pulitzer Center, where she reported on the role biogas plays in the brewing and distilling industries in Ireland.
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