Stephanie Guyer-Stevens (executive producer): Stephanie started Outer Voices in 2003 as a response to her experiences working as an activist in the U.S. She is a writer and organizer with nearly two decades’ experience in non-profit work, specializing in women’s, health, environmental, and sustainability issues. The founder of Women’s Health Education Project in New York City, she has also served as a consultant to various other non-profit organizations. Her writing and editorial work include publication in the Village Voice, Downtown, and Whole Earth. In book publishing, she was developmental editor forI Opened the Gates Laughing by Mayumi Oda (Chronicle, 2001).  

Emily Polk (reporter & field sound producer, Karen refugee program ): Emily was for three years the Associate Editor of "Whole Earth", where her reporting included stories on child labor in Guatemala, the life-saving Bhopal People's Health and Documentation Clinic, and feminist playwright and activist Eve Ensler. Her travel writing and interest in sustainable development have led her to remote mountain communities of India, France, Turkey and Guatemala, among many others. Her articles have appeared in The Boston Globe, Utne Reader, National Geographic Traveller, India Express and The Central America Weekly. She has recently completed a Master's Degree in Human Rights Studies and Communication at Columbia University, and was selected as a 2005/06 Third Millennium Fellow.

Catherine Stifter (editor):Catherine  is a 2-time Peabody award-winning freelance editor and producer. From 1990-1997 she was producer-trainer for National Public Radio's Diversity Initiative and On-Site Training Programs. She taught radio reporting skills to ethnic minority journalists in a training program funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. In 1993, Catherine traveled to South Africa with Brenda Wilson and Ira Glass to present some of the first integrated, hands-on journalism workshops at the South African Broadcasting Corporation. For 10 years she was part of the team at "Sound Partners for Community Health", where she managed the website and provided technical support and training assistance to public and community radio and television stations covering local health care issues. She was managing editor of the 2006 Peabody award-winning documentary series "Crossing East: Our History, Our Stories, Our America" produced by Dmae Roberts, MediaRites. Her current projects include co-directing the regional media project, "Saving The Sierra: Voices of Conservation in Action", and co-managing the online community for New Routes to Community Health, a national citizen's media project to improve the lives of new US immigrants, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.