OUR TEAM
The People Behind The Scenes
Stephanie Guyer-Stevens
Executive Producer
Stephanie learned radio from her extraordinary team. Her audio work has been broadcast on over 600 radio stations in the U.S. and abroad and used in high school and college classrooms. She’s created multimedia for Center for Investigative Reporting (Reveal), Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, Transom and NPR. She’s generated more conversation, having lectured at numerous venue, including Stanford University; The Foreign Correspondents’ Club Thailand, and The Third Coast Festival. She received a Gracie Allen Award for Outstanding Documentary. She is co-author, with Dr. Françoise Pommaret, of the forthcoming book “Divine Messengers: The Untold Story of Bhutan’s Female Shamans (Shambhala, 2021).
Emily Polk, Ph.D.
Reporter and Field Sound Producer
Emily has reported on social justice issues in India Guatemala, Turkey, France and Germany, and her writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, Utne Reader, National Geographic Traveller, India Express and The Central America Weekly. At Stanford University her teaching focuses on the intersections between climate change, social justice and technology.
Shebana Coelho
Producer
Shebana is an award-winning producer/director of television and radio documentaries and a writer. She received a Fiction Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), a Jerome Foundation Emerging Artist’s Fellowship and a Fulbright grant to Mongolia to experience and record life in nomadic communities. Her work has been broadcast on National Public Radio, BBC Radio Four, American Public Television and the Discovery Channel.
Malia Guyer-Stevens
Digital Media Editor
Malia is a journalist and researcher, working for publications ranging from Cambodia Daily to Edible Queens. She is currently pursuing a Master’s in Food Studies at New York University and working for Slow Food USA.
Robin Wise
Sound Engineer
Robin has worked as a professional audio engineer for over 20 years. Prior to this career, Robin taught music in public schools and was an award-winning ensemble conductor. Projects she has worked on have won numerous major awards, including The Peabody Award, Robert Woods Johnson Award, Silver Baton of the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award, AAAS Award, and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. Always a teacher, Robin has taught digital audio technology at the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley, the United Nations, and the AARP.
Catherine Stifter
Editor
Catherine Stifter is a two-time Peabody Award-winning editor. She was Senior Editor for Innovation at Capital Public Radio in Sacramento, California and producer for The View From Here. Past work includes: New Routes to Community Health; Saving The Sierra: Voices of Conservation in Action; Peabody award winning Crossing East and The DNA Files. From 1990-1997 she was producer-trainer for National Public Radio’s On-Site Training Program and taught radio reporting skills to ethnic minority journalists in NPR’s Diversity Initiative.
Karoline Kemp
Researcher, Production Assistant
Karoline Kemp came to Outer Voices as an intern in 2005. After living, studying and working throughout Asa and Africa on gender and development issues she now lives in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada where she is Senior Policy Analyst at Global Affairs Canada.
Barrett Golding
Editor
Barrett was Executive Producer of the Peabody Award-winning radio series Hearing Voices from NPR. Named a United States Artist: Media Fellow and a Reynolds Journalism Institute fellow, his radio works have been broadcast by NPR, PRI, BBC, CBC, VOA and CBS. His awards include the Scripps Howard Awards for Journalism Excellence: Jack R. Howard Award, American Bar Association Gavel Award: Certificate of Merit, and Golden Reel from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters. He’s the former General Manager of KGLT in Bozeman, MT.
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Jack Chance
Producer, Sound Recordist
Jack has recorded indigenous musicians in over thirty foreign countries. His documentaries and field recordings, have been heard on NPR, RRI, Minnesota Public Radio’s and the Nature Conservancy Podcast. A contributing writer for The Rough Guide to World Music, he has helped preserve audio recordings for Easter Island’s Museo Anthropologico, documented endangered native languages in Alaska, studied folk music in several countries, and is the director for the Mountain Music Project.
John Biewen
Editor
John is audio program director at the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University, where he teaches and produces the podcast “Scene on Radio”. He has received two Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Awards, the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award, and the Third Coast International Audio Festival’s Radio Impact Award. He is the editor, with Alexa Dilworth, of the essay collection, Reality Radio: Telling True Stories in Sound, ( 2010,The University of North Carolina Press).
Sara Washington
Audio Editor, Sound Engineer
Sara Washington is a documentary media artist and videographer at Bloomberg. Her work has been featured on DesignSponge, Food52, and the California Health Report.
Claire Schoen
Scriptwriter
Claire Schoen’s audio projects have garnered numerous awards for Best Documentary, including an NFCB Golden Reel, an NFCB Silver Reel, two Gracie awards, two Clarion awards, a PASS award and a New York International Festival Silver. She has also shared in both a Peabody and a DuPont-Columbia award. Please visit www.claireschoenmedia.com.
Carlos Tejada
Field Sound Producer
Carlos is an architect in Brooklyn, NY.
Cathy Fitzgerald
Editor
Cathy has won Whicker’s World, Prix Marulic, Third Coast Festival and Radio Academy Production awards for her audio documentaries, as well as Prix Europa commendations, on subjects including magic carpets, angry Vietnamese ghosts, reindeer-racing, and a museum of broken hearts. She presents and produces BBC Radio 4’s recurring series, Moving Pictures, and creates websites, audio tours and apps for many of the UK’s major cultural institutions. Cathy is the founder of Strange & Charmed, a school for people who tell stories in sound.
The People On The Scene
SOLOMON ISLANDS | Story of Lata
Advisors: Mimi George & Meph Wyeth
Translators: Walter Nubao, Geoffrey Kuper, Eddy Kuper, Henry
Speakers: Frida Kuper, Eddy Kuper, Jocelyn Sale, Janet Longomaha, Joanne Hahala, Chief Kaveia, Aseri Yalongono, Steve and Cheryl Kornberg and Terry Causey
CAMBODIA | Girls from Cambodia
Translators: Mr. Soun Soulinh; Ms.Sin Li Pao; Mr. Long Sophal
Retranslation: Thea Chun
Voice Over Actors: Vannara Taing as Sin Li Pao, Lisa Taing as Chen Souk Ha, Chanda May as Thyda, Norind Su as Sun Bon Thang, Chhom Phuong as Keap Noun, Tita Prum as Srey
Musicians: Khim – Kum Long, Takhe – Hun Sote, Tro – Khat Hule, Roneat Ek – Chan Bo, Skor Day – Teuh, Chhing – Yim Chan Tee, Khloy – Dyer Jeffrey
Thank you to the staff of Cambodian Women’s Crisis Center, the Siem Reap police, SWEET FM radio station, Siem Reap, Bud Gibbons, and the staff of the Golden Gate Hotel; Jeff Dyer for coordinating the music recording; and to Samat and the staff of Babel recording studio in Phnom Penh.
In California, thanks to the San Jose Cambodian Temple, East Bay Asian Youth Coalition, Spencer Nagasako, the Santa Rosa Cambodian Community Center, and the University of California Berkeley Cambodian Students Association. Many thanks also to Elizabeth Becker and to Ada Chan of the Thai Airways Los Angeles office.
U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS | Here, St. John
Speakers: Adren Anderson, Rafe Boulon, Faye Fredricks, Eleanor Gibney, Eulita Jacobs, Jalayne Jones, David Knight Jr., Willow Malamet, Kurt Marsh, Jr., Jeff Miller, Dr.Caroline Rogers, Rosa Samuel, Dr. Hadiya Sewer, Elroy Sprauve and Paul Thomas
Original music performed by: Love City Pandragons, Pressure Busspipe, Bamboula Dance Drums (Smithsonian Folkways) and Stellwagen Symphonette.
Many thanks to the people of Nazareth Evangelical Lutheran Church of Cruz Bay, St. John for sharing stories and allowing us to record on their grounds; to Bajo El Sol for helping to create the conversations; and to the people of St. Jan Co. for sharing their vision of the future of St. John.
LINE ISLANDS | Blue Water Cowboys
Fixer: April Fountain, co-owner, SV Kwai
Speakers: SV Kwai crew: Nacaniel Polania, Teibitoa Rubeniti, Arina Tembeu, Tebaueti Tetabo, Ben Vroom, Captain Evy, and SV Kwai owner Brad Ives
Sailing canoe Hokule’a: Navigator Kaleo Wong and Captain Bruce Blankenfed
Kaeti Boanareke, and the people of the Line Islands of the nation of Kiribati
MONGOLIA | On the Move
Speakers: Monjago, nomadic herder; Munkhtsetseg, horse trainer; Onika, student; Amgalan, language teacher; and Jainaa, singer
Translators: Munkhzul Dorjsuren, Oyu Choijamts, Delgerjargal Uvsh, and Tsolmon
TIBET | The Winter Camp
Guide and Translator: Tsebtrim Renqing, owner, Gesar Tours
Speakers Include: Demba Jhyentse, gesar storyteller; Karma Lhamo, Gesar archivist
HAWAII | The Hula Lesson
Special thanks to Roselle Bailey and to all the members of Ka Imi Na Au’ao o Hawai’i Nei halau.
Thanks also to Marsha Erickson and her ohana, the staff of Koke’e State Park, and Kimo Campbell.
BHUTAN | The Queen's Trek
Fixers: Dr. Françoise Pommaret and Chimi Wangmo
Speakers: Queen Mother Sangay Choden Wangchuck; Chimi Wangmo; Dr Meenakshe Rai; Kunzang Choden; Yeshey Dorji
THAI/BURMA BORDER | Kawthoolei
Additional Sound Recordings: Hsamu, and Megan Hauser:
Additional Music Recordings: Gregory Scarborough, Hsamu, the Karen Youth Organization, and Nicole Huck
In Thailand, thanks to the Karen Women’s Organization, the Mae Tao Clinic, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, the Thailand Burma Border Consortium, the Karen Refugee Committee, the Center for Internally Displaced Karen People, the Karen Student Network Group, the Burmese Medical Association, the Assistance Association of Political Prisoners, Burma Issues, the World Education Consortium, Tim Syrota, Phil Thornton, Miles Jury, Jim Pollard; Violet Cho, ALTSEAN, Images Asia, and the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand.
In the United States, thanks to the American Friends Service Committee-Golden Gate Chapter, the World Affairs Council San Francisco, Friends of the Karen, the Burma Scholars program of the Open Society Institute, Dr. Ben Brown, Planet Care and KGLT-FM.
VIETNAM | The Price of Rice
Additional Field Recording: Simon Dearnaley
Audio Production Assistance: Marisa Benzle
Transcription Assistance: Claire Kinnison
Translators in Vietnam and Laos: Tu Kien Dang, Quang Tu Pham and Trong Tuan Dam
Voiceovers: Chinh Nguyen, Kim Thuy and Maisie Nguyen
Music recordings by Jack Chance, and Archives of Traditional Music In Laos. Many thanks to Nha Pho and Nguyen Thanh Thuy for their assistance with music
Many thanks to Tranh Thi Lanh, Minh Phuong Nguyen, and the entire staff of SPERI. Thanks to the staff of Green Discovery in Luang Namtha, Laos. Many thanks to the people of Ke, Ta Phin, Long Lan and Xien Da villages, Ban May Commune, and to the people of the villages in Luang Namtha conservation area, for their hospitality. Thanks to Duy Khoi Do and to the class K1A of the HEPA farmer field school. Thanks also to Carol Kresge, of The Language Project, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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FOUNDATIONS
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Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands
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LEF Foundation
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National Endowment for the Humanities
Open Society Foundations
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Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
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Urgent Action Fund
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INDIVIDUALS
Outer Voices receives invaluable financial and in-kind support from:
Anonymous, Alex Stevens, Allissa and Neal Keny-Guyer, Alta Mae Stevens, Amanda and Jonas Edvardsson, Anita Fenichel and John Wingard, Dr. Caroline Rogers, Christopher Szeczey, Constance San Juan, Dave Worthington, David Bryant, Doris Rossman, Elizabeth Hersey, Gerhard Jung, Gloria Neumeyer, Hanna Roveto, Jan Tensen, Jennifer and Paul Tincknell, Jennifer Roberts, Jodie Hymes, Joe Naujokas and Lauren Parnes, Leda Black, John Barth, Joyce Chang, Kate Crigler, Kate Henry, Kyle Rudderow, Laurel Singer, Leigh and Luisa Guyer, Lynn Roth, Marcelle Dominguez and Robert Butler, Marcia Stewart, Margaret Schink, Mark Feickert, Matthew Campbell, Michael Hoberman, Michael Royce, Morrie Warshawski, Patrice Silverstein, Peter Herb, Phil Stevens, Radha Speer, Richard Burg, Richard Walton, Rosie Warda, Sarah Rubin, Shelly Guyer, Susan Davis, Terry Causey, The Linde Hays Family, The Quantz McNichol Family, Tom Huntington, Wendy Warda, and other generous individuals.
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OUR INTERNS
We are who we are because of our intelligent, enthusiastic and dedicated interns. Past interns include:
Cathy Baroang
Marisa Benzle
Amber Cortes
Kate Crigler
Savannah Harriman-Pote
Annette Kirchner
Claire Kinnison
Sarah Rubin
Matt Mahoney
Sheena Stevens
Sophie Trimboli
WEB DESIGNERS EMERITUS
Carlos Tejada designed our first website, and Josh Woodlander completed our first website revision. Kayle Hope was our webmistress until 2015.