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Yowei is a podcast host, producer, and emotional investigative journalist™️. In her previous life, she spent many years making NPR's Invisibilia. Her current niche emotional conundrum is desperately wanting to put her feet up on the windshield in the passenger seat, but knowing now that it is not safe. 

Kim is a producer on Proxy, where she researches, writes, and talks to people and generally plays the extravert to Yowei's introvert. Previously and sometimes simultaneously, she's reported and produced for NPR, Reply All and TED, and she holds a masters in narrative journalism from NYU. Her favorite thing to do is kick it with her friends. If you want to get in touch, hit her up at kimnpieterse@gmail.com. 

Tim is a story editor and musician. He previously was editor & creative director at Reply All, and a reporter/producer at Radiolab. He has lived in Berlin since 2018.

John is a renowned radio/podcast sound designer, producer, and editor, with a career that spans from his time at WNYC/New York Public Radio (where he worked on Studio360, On The Media, and Death Sex & Money), to the start-up days of Gimlet (where he worked on Mystery Show, Start Up, and Reply All), to Stitcher (where he launched The Paris Review Podcast, Chris Gethard's Beautiful Stories from Anonymous People, and The Atlas Obscura Podcast. These days John runs his independent production shop Starlight Diner and along with Julie Shapiro is the co-founder of Audio Flux, a new home for independent audio. 

Anakaren is a former EdTech product manager turned holistic wellness coach and yoga teacher. At Proxy, she’s helped with research and interviews, but is increasingly focused on developing best practices for how we approach emotional conundrums.

Nik is a production fellow with Proxy. He specializes in rabbit-holing to track down guests and proxies for each episode, but he also loves jumping into other pools of production, whenever, wherever needed.

Juliana is a writer and journalist based between Manila and Philly. She most recently worked as an investigative journalist at the Philadelphia Inquirer where she focused on workers' rights. She's getting her MFA in creative writing at Randolph College and working on a memoir in essays about other kinds of intimacy. She plays (and screams) with traditional Korean drumming ensemble URIOL. Her niche emotional conundrums include not being able to eat fruit alone and overthinking karaoke performances.

When Kyle is not mastering Proxy late at night, he's producing records and running Headroom Studios, where he's worked with such artists as Dr. Dog, Alex G, Hop Along, Jay Som, and many others. His niche emotional conundrum is yearning for the open road of tour and sleeping on strangers' couches.