Leital Molad - Senior Producer
Leital Molad came to New York City from Austin, Texas in 1999 to try and break into the world of public radio. While studying at NYU's graduate school of journalism, she scored an internship with Studio 360 in its pre-air days. She and the show stuck together through their growing stages and now she's one of the veteran members of the staff. Back in her home state, Leital was a DJ for the student station at the University of Texas, a bassist in a rock n' roll band, and also in the process got an English and Spanish degree. She's made a happy new home in Brooklyn.
David Krasnow - Senior Editor
Brooklyn native David Krasnow got his start in radio at age 17 at WESU-Middletown (Conn.), where he spun (on vinyl) everything from indie rock to free jazz to north Texas conjunto. He worked in print as an editor and writer covering music, furniture design, American history, land use, and the politics of health care. Formerly the reviews editor of Artforum, he has written for the Village Voice, Jazz Times, Metropolis, The New York Observer, The Wire, and other publications, and remains a contributing editor for Bomb. David began producing stories for PRI's Studio 360 in 2001, and joined the staff in 2003.
Michele Siegel - Associate Producer
Michele Siegel joined Studio 360 in September 2000, after coordinating research and special projects for the National Arts Journalism Program at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Previously in the Deputy Chairman's office at the National Endowment for the Arts, Michele earned her B.A. in History from Vassar College in 1996.
Pejk Malinovski - Associate Producer
Pejk Malinovski went to a Marxist kindergarten in his hometown of Copenhagen. Almost immediately after learning to write he channeled that experience into modern, sometimes shattered poetry. Later, after experiments in documentary filmmaking, he somehow sneaked through a crack in the sound barrier at the National Danish Radio. His first radio piece was an abstract portrait of a street in Copenhagen, based on Guillaume Apollinaire's compositional ideas. After studying an MA in Radio at Goldsmith College in London, he inexplicably landed up in the heart of capitalism to produce radio for WNYC's The Next Big Thing. Here he made radio drama, conceptual documentaries and sound art pieces, one of which won the Directors Choice award at Third Coast festival in Chicago. After a stint of freelancing, he moved up three floors to work for Studio 360.
Derek John - Associate Producer
It was classic doo-wop that first got Derek L. John hooked on radio back in Topeka, Kansas. A local disc jockey who liked to spin "music to play in the front of the car, while you played in the back" introduced the impressionable young man to the er, romance of radio. Derek attended the University of Kansas, home of KJHK, and deejayed a soul/funk show called "Bump & Hustle" that he credits with helping him woo his eventual wife. He moved to New York in August 2001 and after forays into print and television, most notably for PBS' Bill Moyers (where he selected Bill's neckties), Derek found his way back to radio. He earned a Masters in Cultural Journalism at NYU, interned with On the Media, and freelanced all over public radio including Studio 360. One thing led to another and now this Midwesterner has some of the best office views in all of Gotham.
Jenny Lawton - Associate Producer
Chicago native Jenny Lawton started dancing at age 3 (and still has the tiny blue tutu to prove it). Since then, she's dabbled in professional theatre performance, choreography, and sound design. As a Watson Fellow, Jenny studied the origins of flamenco dance in India, Spain, and several countries in between. She found her muse at Chicago Public Radio, reporting and producing stories about arts and culture, politics, technology, and the environment. You may have heard her work on other public radio programs like PRI's "The World." Jenny moved to New York and joined Studio 360 in 2007.
