Christina Russo has worked as a producer for a number of nationally-syndicated public radio programs including The Connection, The Takeaway and On Point. As a reporter, she has focused on a variety of stories about animals, including: the hunting of the Eastern coyote; the debate over shark-fishing tournaments, dancing bears in India; caring for donkeys in Ethiopia, and a farm animal sanctuary in Woodstock, New York. Her reports have aired on NPR, PRI's The World, Here & Now, and Weekend America. She has also written for The Christian Science Monitor. She lives in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Diane Toomey began her 15-year long public radio career as a producer at The Marketplace Morning Report in Los Angeles. She later moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina where she reported on science, the environment, and medicine for WUNC. She later became science editor, reporter and substitute host at Living On Earth, public radio’s environmental news show. Her stories have won numerous awards, including the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service and the Public Radio News Directors' Award for Enterprise Reporting. An hour-long special she reported, featuring famed biologist E.O. Wilson, earned the American Institute of Biological Sciences’ Media Award. Her reports have been heard on Studio 360, Here and Now, Only A Game, NPR, and PRI’s The World. In addition to her public radio work, Diane produced a series on alternative medicine for the Discovery Health Channel. And she’s worked as an elementary school teacher. It’s a job, she says, that was more difficult than anything she’s done as a journalist.