meet the team
Meet the people who made our 4th season
Allison BEHRINGER - host/creator/Executive producer
Allison Behringer is an award-winning narrative audio journalist and podcast producer. She is the creator, host and executive producer of Bodies. She is a member of Rough Cut Collective and former story editor at The Cut podcast. Allison was born and raised in Maryland. She holds a BA in sociology from Princeton University and a certificate from the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. Allison lives in Brooklyn, NY. She loves outdoor adventures, cooking and riding her bike everywhere she goes.
Lila Hassan - reporter/producer
Lila Hassan is an award-winning independent reporter based in New York City. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, FRONTLINE PBS, Reuters, The Guardian, ProPublica, HuffPost National, Kaiser Health News, and more. She received her BA in political science from CUNY Brooklyn College and an M.S. in investigative journalism from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.
Hannah harris green - contributing producer
Hannah Harris Green is an independent journalist and audio producer interested in gender, bodies and tech. In addition to her work at Bodies, she has worked as a producer for Science Vs and a freelance reporter for outlets including VICE, The Guardian, Gizmodo, Marketplace, PRI's The World, Quartz, Medium OneZero and BBC Future—where she's covered everything from condom testing to homophobic algorithms to the science of orgasms. Fulbright and The Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting have both supported her work—in 2018 she traveled to India to report on unsafe government sterilization camps and innovations in contraceptive technology, and conducted interviews in both English in Hindi.
Mira Burt-Wintonick - story editor
Mira Burt-Wintonick is an award-winning radio producer and filmmaker living in Montreal. During the past 15 or so years, she’s been co-creator/senior editor of CBC's Love Me, senior producer of WireTap, and producer of the unexpectedly viral video How To Age Gracefully. She recently directed Wintopia, a feature documentary film about her late father, filmmaker Peter Wintonick, and his search for Utopia. Mira's audio work has aired on This American Life, The Truth, and BBC's Short Cuts among others.
Cassius adair - Story Editor/Inclusivity Advisor
Cassius Adair is an audio producer and media scholar from Virginia Beach, Virginia. With Tuck Woodstock, he works with journalists and storytellers on issues of equity and representation as half of Sylveon Consulting. His latest audio project is the podcast Transcripts, produced with the Tretter Transgender Oral History Project. He is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University.
Hannis brown - composer
Composer and sound designer Hannis Brown has created and mixed music for podcasts and radio programs including The Anthropocene Reviewed, Will Be Wild, Last Day, Scattered, The 11th and The Paris Review Podcast. Recent commissions and honors include a 2022 du-Pont Columbia award and NAACP Image Award for The History Channel and WNYC's Blindspot: Tulsa Burning, 2019 du-Pont Columbia Awards for the New York Public Radio’s Trump, Inc and Caught, and a 2015 Peabody Award for production on the podcast Meet the Composer. In addition to Bodies, projects on the horizon include new collaborations with Crooked Media, Pineapple Street Media, and a collaboration between the BBC and CBC. He performs on 6 and 12-string guitar with the new-music collective Hotel Elefant.
Nick Lampone is an audio engineer, producer and musician from Los Angeles, CA. Nick holds a BA in Communications from San Francisco State and also attended The Los Angeles Recording School, obtaining his degree in the Recording Arts. Nick has worked for famed instrument maker Roland, where he served as an audio engineer for their product-line, collaborating with well-known musicians like Steely Dan and Janelle Monae. Nick currently calls KCRW (NPR) his home, where his work has earned him a Golden Mike Award and a James Beard nomination. Outside of audio, Nick enjoys spending time with his wife and daughter. He’s a big fan of cars and enjoys watching and playing most sports, tennis in particular.
Sharon mashihi - story editor/advisor
Sharon Mashihi makes movies, podcasts, and performances. In 2018, Sharon won the Third Coast International Audio Prize Silver Award for her audio documentary, Man Choubam (I Am Good.) Her latest project is a metafictional audio series called, Appearances, which was named the number 1 podcast of 2020 by Podcast Review from The L.A. Review of Books and one of the "Best New Podcasts of 2020" by The New York Times.
Kristen lepore - editorial Advisor
Kristen Lepore is a journalist and an audio editor based in Los Angeles. She teaches a narrative podcast course at UCLA Extension and has worked with creators around the world to publish and distribute their nonfiction work. Kristen has a background in investigative, narrative audio docs. Previously, she oversaw KCRW’s Independent Producer Project and Bodies podcast. Her team won a Third Coast Award in 2020 for their work on “Not This Again.” In her free time, she writes about life, culture and sex in L.A. Kristen is a Chicago native. She has a journalism degree from University of Missouri-Columbia.
Kalalea - editorial advisor
KalaLea is an audio producer and reporter who currently produces interviews and narrative features for WNYC and the New Yorker Radio Hour. She's also an experienced editor and podcast consultant. Before working as a radio journalist, KalaLea worked as a photographer and digital producer and before that she was the owner of a little cafe in Brooklyn, NY.
caitlin pierce - editorial advisor
Caitlin is an award-winning audio producer with an interest in social justice, race, education, youth, incarceration, feminism, music, and food. She left a career teaching high school to pursue her dream of audio storytelling, and her work has appeared on NPR, WNYC, BBC News, CBC and Audible, among others. When she's not making podcasts, she can be found hiking, farming, or listening to podcasts.
camila kerwin - editorial advisor
Camila is an independent storyteller based in Bogotá, Colombia. Previously, she was a full-time producer at StoryCorps and an associate producer at NPR’s On Point. She collaborated on Bodies as an editing consultant and has a master’s in journalism from Columbia University. She is also an illustrator and creates a yearly, themed calendar.
Neka King - episode art
Neka King is digital illustrator and muralist working in Atlanta, Ga. She received her BFA in Studio Arts with a concentration in Textile Arts from Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design at Georgia State University in 2016.
contributors & collaborators of past seasons
Dara Hirsch, composer, seasons 1-3
Cara Reedy, advisor and story editor, “Not Your Average”
Nisha Venkat, KCRW’s Luminary Fellow, season 3
Andrea Galdamez, freelance reporter, “LA’s Toxic Secret”
Rebecca Mooney, managing producer, season 3
Kalaisha Totty, associate producer, season 3
Teeny Lieberson, sound engineer, season 3
Nico Wisler, producer, “Changing Shape”
Stephanie Foo, editor, season 2
Myke Dodge Weiskopf, mix engineer, season 2
Mervyn Degaños, producer, “Invisible Impact”
Lisa Krieger, editorial support, “Cost of Silky Soft”
Catherine Stifter, editorial support, “Cost of Silky Soft”
Bethany Denton, story editor, “Not This Again”
Lila Hassan, translation help, “Not This Again”
Kaitlin Prest, story editor, “Sex Hurts”
Elysabeth Alfano, producer, “Refusing to Feed”
Kathy Farthing, episode art, season 1
Sarah Bachman, cover art