GG Hawkins
Advisory Board Member
Brooklyn, NY, USA
GG Hawkins is a Brooklyn-based independent filmmaker. Her debut short, An Aspirational Space, has screened at 18 festivals, and she is currently in post-production on two more. She has worked at Gimlet Media, Studio B Films, Google, and The Wall Street Journal.
Zach Mack
Advisory Board Member
Brooklyn, NY, USA
All day Zach makes podcasts. Zach is a senior podcast producer at Vox Media working on several upcoming narrative projects. Apart from that, Zach is independently developing a travel podcast series called Greetings from Somewhere. Zach also consults about the podcast industry for Third Bridge Creative and Podcation.
James Oliva
2020 Participant
San Fernando, CA, USA
Writer/creator/director of the psychedelic noir audio drama podcast What’s The Frequency? Also the voice of Michael Tate on Greater Boston, Robert Montague on Tides, Scott Sweet on 1994 and Azrael on Minefire. He’s guested on Paradoxica, The Strange Case of Starship Iris, Alba Salix, Lake Clarity, Big Data, Jim Robbie and the Wanderers, Oakpodcast, The Haven Chronicles, Radiation World, and worked as director and sound designer for the short Old Fashioned Hell House.
Tara Goldstein
2020 Participant
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Tara Goldstein is the Artist Director of Toronto indie theatre company Gailey Road Productions where research meets theatre and theatre meets research. Tara’s podcast Gender. Sexuality. School. is now in its second season at lgbtqfamiliesspeakout.ca.
Robert Guerra
Advisory Board Member
Administrative Staff
San Diego, CA, USA
Robert Guerra is a musician, designer, and podcaster from San Diego who took part in the first Podcation event in 2018. He is working as a designer as a part of PYD.Studio and has several podcasts he hosts such as Bikini Bottom Radio, The 3 Minute Theater Podcast, and Mega Arena Duel Cast.
Shane Krukowski
2020 Participant
Milwaukee, WI, USA
Shane Krukowski is an entrepreneur, pedagogy geek, and wannabe accordion player. He’s designed, launched, and helped many organizations implement various software platforms, including co-founding Headrush Learning. He was a catalyst for the edCamp movement, won several pitch competitions, and is a graduate of the gener8tor business accelerator.
Garan Fitzgerald
2020 Participant
Seoul, South Korea
Garan Fitzgerald likes mics, which is handy since he’s spent 11 years making a living with one pointed at his general business. Outside the (broadcast) booth, he spends his time working to improve conditions for international VAs in Korea through IVTK, an organization he co-founded.
Tamara Kissane
2020 Participant
Durham, NC, USA
Tamara Kissane is a playwright, director, and podcaster for Artist Soapbox. She facilitates two collaborative audio fiction writing groups and will be releasing her second original audio drama in 2020. Tamara moms hard in Durham, NC for her pre-schooler and middle-schooler. She was recently named the 2020 Piedmont Laureate.
Patrick Yurick
Head of Experience & Design
Co-Founder
San Diego, CA, USA
Patrick is passionate about podcasting and the power it has to bring together people and educate at scale. Prior to founding PYD.Studio, Patrick was an instructional designer at MIT he where he was the creator and executive producer of MIT’s Great Communicators Podcast. Patrick constantly has creative work and projects that are, arguably, all worth checking out.
Christopher O’Keeffe
Head of Narrative
Co-Founder
Salem, MA, USA
Chris is a writer, musician and podcast creator. In 2018 he co-founded Podcation which resulted in the creation of Jupiter Saloon. Through that project and others (MIT’s Great Communicators, Disgraceland, Boston Venue: The Channel), Chris has developed a unique voice and production approach for both fiction and non-fiction storytelling.