Who We Are
APM's Sydney Lewis, Viki Merrick and Jay Allison in the studio.
Meet some of the people behind Atlantic Public Media and its mission.

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Our Staff
Jay Allison
Executive Director

Jay Allison

Viki Merrick
Associate Director

Viki Merrick

Sydney Lewis
Editor/Finance Director

Sydney Lewis

Jennifer Jerrett
Transom Managing Editor

Jennifer Jarett

Joshua Barlow
Web Director

Joshua Barlow

Project Consultant

Sophie Crane

Executive Director

Jay Allison

Jay Allison has been an independent public radio producer, journalist, and teacher since the 1970s. His work has won most of the major broadcasting awards, including six Peabodys. He produces The Moth Radio Hour and was the curator of This I Believe on NPR. He has also worked in print for the New York Times Magazine and as a solo-crew reporter for ABC News Nightline, and is a longtime proponent of building community through story.

Through his non-profit organization, Atlantic Public Media, he is a founder of The Public Radio Exchange, PRX.org, and WCAI, the public radio service for Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket. More about Jay, more than you’d reasonably need to know, is available at www.jayallison.org.

Associate Director

Viki Merrick

Viki is an independent radio producer and editor. She began as a radio stringer for ABC News in Rome, Italy, while working as a location/production manager for film documentaries. Since the founding of Atlantic Public Media in 1995, she has been producing essays and features for national broadcast on NPR and for the Cape and Island public radio stations.

Viki is an editor for Transom, and a collaborator on four Peabody Award-winning series, Lost & Found Sound and The Sonic Memorial Project, Transom.org and The Moth Radio Hour. She was the Senior Editor on the NPR series This I Believe and currently produces The Moth Radio Hour with Jay Allison. Additionally, Viki was the voice coach for the Transom Story Workshops and currently coaches reporters and hosts in public radio, podcasting and other media, among them: Marketplace, NY Times, Pushkin Podcasts, Financial Times.

Editor/Finance Director

Sydney Lewis

Sydney is the author of three oral histories, published by The New Press, and for close to thirty years assisted oral history maestro Studs Terkel. She co-authored his memoir Touch and Go. In 2001, Sydney moved to Southeastern, Massachusetts and has been working with Atlantic Public Media ever since.

Transom Managing Editor

Jennifer Jarett

Jennifer Jerrett is a radio producer, editor, and natural sound recordist whose work has appeared on Here and NowLiving on EarthPRX Remix, and Wyoming Public Media. She created Telemetry, a science and nature podcast for Yellowstone National Park, where she also developed a comprehensive natural sound library that includes more than 10,000 hours worth of recordings of the Yellowstone ecosystem. Jennifer graduated from the Transom Story Workshop in 2013 and later became a teaching assistant for Transom’s Traveling Workshops. In a previous life, Jen worked in ecology: studying snow leopards in Mongolia, penguins in Antarctica and owls in the Southwest U.S.

Web Director

Joshua Barlow

Joshua is an internet and media kind of person who began his work with APM in the early 2000s as project manager for NPR’s Lost & Found Sound website, then as Transom.org’s website director during its first few years. He is also an artist and occasional journalist, whose work has appeared on NPR, CGTN, DC’s WPFW FM, and other outlets.

Project Consultant

Sophie Crane

Sophie Crane is a Showrunner and Senior Editor at Pushkin Industries and Scholar-in-Residence at Dartmouth College. She lives in Norwich, VT.

Our Board of Directors

President: Nubar Alexanian
Treasurer: Elisabeth Swan
Secretary: Sydney Lewis
Voting Members: Jay Allison, Leila Day

Who Came to Play
Some of the great minds of radio and other media who have given their time and talents to our Transom workshops.
Madhu Acharya, Daniel Alarcón, Nubar Alexanian, Deborah Amos, Brendan Baker, Laura Belous, Lauren Black, Christina Bozdnick, Emily Botein, Nora Boydell, Alex Burns, Ibby Caputo, Frannie Carr, Scott Carrier, Zoe Chace, Elizabeth Chur, Kim Clum, Sean Cole, Sean Corcoran, Jeanine Cornillot, Annie Correal, Leila Day, Rachel Day, Chris D’Silva, Hayley Fager, Robbie Feinberg, Stephanie Foo, Andrew Forsthoefel, Hillary Frank, Bianca Giaever, Ira Glass, Barrett Golding, Anna Goldman, Ian Gray, Brendan Greeley, David Greenberger, Jonathan Groubert, Jesse Hardman, Jonathan Harris, Sarah Harris, Elspeth Hay, Erica Heilman, Jeremy Hobson, Sadie Housberg, Whitney Jones, Steve Junker, Annie Kiyonaga, Amanda Kowalski, David Krasnow, Robert Krulwich, Davis Land, Sophie LeBlanc-Medeiros, Pejk Malinovsky, Kelly McEvers, Miki Meek, Jonathan Menjivar, Shereen Marisol Meraji, Chelsea Merz, Mary Hellen Miller, Jason Moon, Alexandra Morrow, Michelle Orange, Ray Pang, Adam Piore, Joey Plaster, Sruthi Pinnamaneni, Martine Powers, Kaitlin Prest, Audrey Quinn, Jason Rayles, Sarah Reynolds, Joe Richman, Henry Rome, Radio Rookies, Zachary Rosen, Dinah Rothenberg, Sam Sanders, Emily Sapienza, Michelle Sauve (graphic design), Kate Schrepfer, Steve Schultz, Robyn Semien, Ari Daniel Shapiro, Nikki Silva, Robert Smith, Alix Spiegel, James Spring, Christina Stella, Allison Swaim, Saidu Tejan Thomas, Jr., Nancy Updike, Benjamin Walker, Eric Winick, Sara Wood, Sarah Yahm.

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