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Robby Korth joined StateImpact Oklahoma in October 2019, focusing on education reporting.

After living in North Carolina the past four years, Miami native Sam Turken is back in the city he’s always called home.

Shannon J. Effinger has been a freelance arts journalist for more than a decade. Her writing on all things jazz and music regularly appears in Pitchfork, Bandcamp, Jazziz, Jazzwise, and Downbeat. As of the fall of 2020, her arts coverage can also be found in The New York Times and The Washington Post; the latter features her Sunday arts cover story on Marshall Allen, the longtime leader of the Sun Ra Arkestra.

Leslie Newman retired as CEO of Children & Families First December 31, 2019 after completing 28 years there: 13 as CEO and 15 as Director of Development. She was a Commissioner and Vice Chair of the Child Death Review Commission and a member of the Delaware Early Childhood Council, serving as Chair of its Health Committee. Leslie chaired Delaware’s Home Visiting Community Advisory Board since its inception in 2008. She is a member of the Vision Coalition Leadership. In addition, Leslie is President of the Board of the Milton & Hattie Kutz Foundation. She is a student at OSHER at the University of Delaware and a member of the Multi-Faith Committee at Seaside Jewish Community Center. Leslie is married to Bill Wolff. She has two married sons and two grandchildren with one on the way.

George H. Watson holds a Ph.D. in Physics and is Unidel Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Delaware; he served nine years as the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at UD. As Dean of its largest college, he was responsible for the leadership and administration of the arts, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences at UD. George is founding director of the Institute for Transforming Undergraduate Education, created to promote reform of undergraduate education through faculty development and course design. He has advanced international problem-based learning (PBL) conferences and was one of the founders of the Pan-American Network for PBL. He has been supported by grants for development of PBL curricula for introductory physics, science education reform in Peru through PBL, and most recently for the GK-12 Project "Improvement of Science Education in Vocational Technical High Schools through Collaborative Learning and Coteaching".

World Cafe Nashville correspondent Jessie Scott is a 50-year radio veteran, and is currently the program director and afternoon drive host at WMOT Roots Radio in Nashville. She has spent the last couple of decades nurturing, curating, writing, and creating audio and video, in an effort to tell the story of American roots music.

Randy Gorbman is WXXI's Director of News and Public Affairs. Randy manages the day-to-day operations of WXXI News on radio, television, and online.