Wild Thing Creators & Guests

Laura Krantz is a journalist, editor and producer, in both radio and print. The first season of her podcast, Wild Thing received critical acclaim, including from The Atlantic, which named it one of the best podcasts of 2018. Laura's been in audio for over a decade: as the interim science editor for PRX, as an editor and producer at NPR in Washington, DC, and as an editor at KPCC in Los Angeles. Her writing has appeared in Popular Science, Smithsonian Magazine, Outside, High Country News and Newsweek. In 2014-15, Laura was a Ted Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Scott Carney is a investigative journalist and anthropologist. Carney has worked in some of the most dangerous and unlikely corners of the world. His work blends narrative non-fiction with ethnography. Currently, he is a senior fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism.

Clara Sousa-Silva is a research scientist at Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. She is an expert on phosphine and has contributed to investigations of the possibility of life on Venus.

David is the Director of Awesome at Seattle-based weird retailer Archie McPhee. He feeds crows and thinks about marketing all the time. Host of the podcast Baffling Cyclops. He/Him

Ramtin Arablouei is co-host and co-producer of NPR's podcast Throughline.