Transmitter Media is a Peabody nominated creative podcast company specializing in highly edited and beautifully sound designed work that has reached millions of listeners worldwide.

Gretta Cohn
Founder & CEO, Executive Producer

Gretta Cohn (she/her/hers), Transmitter's founder, has well over a decade of experience creating strong story-driven shows that start conversations. Podcasts she and her team have made include Finding Fred (The Atlantic’s #1 podcast of 2019) the Webby-winning “Six Who Sat” episode of 30 for 30, WorkLife with Adam Grant, The Argument, The Barneys Podcast hosted by Noor Tagouri and Tabloid.

Prior to founding Transmitter, she was Executive Producer and head of new show development at Earwolf and Midroll Media (one of Fast Company's "Most Innovative" Companies, 2016), where she developed and launched numerous podcasts, including: award-winning iTunes #1 show Beautiful Stories from Anonymous People, iTunes ‘Best of’ pick Katie Couric and Issa Rae’s Fruit.

Previously, she was a producer for the well-loved Freakonomics Radio podcast and WNYC’s music show Soundcheck. She has taught radio/podcast production to graduate students in the Cultural Reporting and Criticism program at NYU. She's also a cellist and a former member of the band Cursive.

Read more about how Transmitter was founded in the L.A. Review of Books. And listen to a wide ranging interview with Gretta in The Come Up podcast.

Isabel Carter
Producer

Isabel Carter (they/them) is an audio producer and multimedia journalist. They previously worked with WBEZ in Chicago, making shows like Motive, Curious City, and Nerdette. When they're not fiddling around in audio sessions or brushing up on the latest pop culture news, they like to make sheet pan recipes and sob to the cutscenes in “The Last Of Us Part II.”

JoAnn DeLuna
Producer

JoAnn (she/her) is a bilingual journalist, audio producer and poet from Texas. She’s produced features for NPR shows including Latino USA, Radio Diaries and San Francisco’s KALW. Previously, she was a print reporter covering the travel industry from Europe and eventually New York for more than a decade. Her poetry is published in anthologies in California, New York and Texas. She recently took up roller skating.  

Sara Nics
Executive Editor

Sara (she/her) has taught Pulitzer Prize winners how to make audio stories, managed a team of reporters from East Africa, covered breaking news in South Asia, made national radio every week in front of a live audience, and a whole lot more. Most recently, she was a founding producer and assignment editor at the New Yorker Radio Hour, with WNYC Studios and The New Yorker. Working with NPR, APM, PRI, Radio Netherlands Worldwide, she's made stories on everything from Antarctic explorers, to art thieves, uncontacted tribes, wonder, ecstatic creativity, and narrative self-concept. She'd love to hear your favorite poem.

Dan O'Donnell
Chief Operating Officer

Dan (he/him/his) was Transmitter's first full time producer, and led or added editorial assistance to many of the company's early projects with TED, The New York Times, ESPN, Fatherly, and others. Prior to Transmitter, Dan built new podcasts for Stitcher/Midroll Media, and spent several years working on a variety of shows and projects at New York Public Radio. Dan is a Michigan native.

Camille Petersen
Senior Producer

Camille (she/her/hers) is a journalist and producer based in Brooklyn, New York. Previously, she produced a daily news show at NPR and helped launch and produce podcasts at The Center for Public Integrity, The Financial Times, Quanta Magazine, and Crooked Media. She's reported stories for NPR, Marketplace, and WHYY and teaches audio journalism at The City College of New York and Columbia Journalism School. She dreams of one day having a different pair of glasses for every mood.

Kiarra Powell
Producer

Kiarra (she/her) is an audio producer and storyteller. Previously, she worked as a producer on NPR’s ‘Ask Me Another’. Her radio and podcast production credits also include NPR’s ‘The Indicator,’ and ‘All Things Considered.’ Her favorite temperature is 82 degrees Fahrenheit, and she wishes that over-ear headphones were more afro-friendly. 

Poncie Rutsch
Senior Producer

Poncie (she/her) is an audio producer based in Washington, D.C. Before joining Transmitter, she helped found the podcast team at WAMU, leading production on Through The Cracks, Dish City, What's With Washington and Dating While Gray. She also created, hosted and produced her own independent podcast, Babes of Science, investigating women who changed the trajectory of science and why it’s taken us so long to recognize their accomplishments. Poncie's work has aired on Living on Earth, The Pulse, Distillations, and many NPR stations. When she isn't filling her ears with audio, Poncie enjoys gardening, doing arts and crafts, and hanging with her dog, who's named for the Washington Nationals' Howie Kendrick.

Wilson Sayre
Managing Producer

Wilson Sayre (she/her) is an audio storyteller based in Raleigh, NC. She’s run podcast operations at Capitol Broadcasting Company, helped launch The City from USA Today, and was a reporter at WLRN, the NPR affiliate in Miami. There, she founded the station's youth radio program. Her work has aired on shows like NPR, Reveal, Planet Money, Gravy and The World and was recognized by the Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize. She enjoys playing banjo and beekeeping.