Steve Curwood
Host / Executive Producer
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Steve Curwood is Executive Producer and Host of Living on Earth. Steve created the first pilot of Living on Earth in the Spring of 1990, and the show has run continuously since April, 1991. Today, Living on Earth with Steve Curwood is aired on more than 270 public radio stations in the USA. Steve's relationship with public radio goes back to 1979 when he began as a reporter and host of Weekend All Things Considered. He also hosted NPR's World of Opera.
Steve has been a journalist for more than 30 years with experience at NPR, CBS News, the Boston Globe, WBUR-FM/Boston and WGBH-TV/Boston. He shared the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service as part of the Boston Globe's education team. Steve Curwood is also the recipient of the 2003 Global Green Award for Media Design, the 2003 David A. Brower Award from the Sierra Club for excellence in environmental reporting and the 1992 New England Environmental Leadership Award from Tufts University for his work on promoting environmental awareness. He is president of the World Media Foundation, Inc. He lives in Southern New Hampshire on a small woodlot with his wife and family.

Bobby Bascomb
Associate Producer
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Bobby Bascomb has been a producer with Living On Earth since 2006. She joined the LOE team from academia with a background in environmental studies and geography. She enjoys producing and reporting stories on a wide breadth of topics, including indigenous issues, sustainable development, and land use in the tropics. When not producing radio, Bobby loves international travel and tries to spend as much time as possible outside. She can often be found hiking with her dog, sailing, camping, gardening, kayaking,
or skiing through the long New England winters.

Eileen Bolinsky
Senior Editor
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Eileen Bolinsky is the Senior Editor at Living on Earth. She came to LOE in 1997 as the technical director with over 15 years of public radio experience, including positions at Monitor Radio and WBUR. She has taught classes on radio production techniques at the New England School of Photography, Boston Women's Community Radio, and the Mid-Cambridge Media Project. Among her numerous honors are a 1985 Peabody Award, as Associate Producer and Engineer, for the Holocaust Series "Liberation Remembered", a 1995 New York Festivals Silver Medal for her work on "Brody Buster, Harmonica Player: A Sound Portrait," and a 1999 New York Festivals Finalist Award as co-producer for "An Afternoon with Pete Seeger." In her spare time, she loves to garden, hike, and travel around the world.

Bruce Gellerman
Senior Correspondent/Host
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Bruce is the winner of more than 40 national awards for environmental, financial, investigative, scientific and social affairs reporting. These include the Sigma Delta Chi-Bronze Medallion, the Ohio State Award, the AAAS-Westinghouse Award, and the Unity Award. His work has been published in the New York Times, The Scientist, and the Boston Globe and he’s the author of the book "Massachusetts Curiosities."
Bruce has traveled far and wide to teach journalism. In the past few years he’s been to Montenegro, Serbia, Macedonia, Kazakstan, Armenia, Albania, Sierre Leone, and Uganda. He recently was selected as a Fulbright Senior Specialist and recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship. He lives with his wife Yulia, and children, Anya and Andre, in Watertown, MA.

Jessica Ilyse (Smith) Kurn
Associate Producer/Reporter
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Jessica Ilyse Kurn hails from the Midwest, where she got her media start by recording cooking shows in her kitchen. In 1999 she moved to New York City to attend Barnard College, Columbia University, where she graduated with degrees in environmental science and human rights. She lived in NYC for many years, working in the public schools and at an urban farm in Brooklyn. In 2007 she moved to Boston to pursue a degree in agriculture, food and environmental policy from Tufts University, where she got her masters in nutrition. At Living on Earth, Jessica Ilyse is a producer and a reporter covering health topics and all things food--from food safety, to genetic engineering, to agricultural innovations.

Ingrid Lobet
Western Bureau Chief
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Ingrid Lobet edits and reports stories from the changing West. Pitch her stories of the unexpected, the unvisited and the under-reported. From her base in Los Angeles she watches trends in among others, energy policy, air pollution, public lands, and water. She came to Living On Earth from Latino USA, where she edited stories and reported on agriculture, farm worker health and Latino demographics. She's reported from Kenya, Honduras, Mexico, Ecuador and Peru. In 2000 she won an Investigative Reporters and Editors award for coverage of oil. She later won an RTNDA Edward R. Murrow and Scripps Howard investigative awards for coverage of a warehouse poisoning. She's written for US News & World Report and Latin Trade and before that was a business reporter and bureau chief at KPLU in Seattle. For fun, she likes rough-housing with Gabriel, her eight-year old.

Helen Palmer
Managing Producer
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Before joining Living on Earth as its managing producer in 2007, Helen Palmer spent nine years as Boston bureau chief and senior health desk correspondent for public radio's Marketplace, reporting daily on health and economics for the business news show. Helen's journalistic career began at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in her native UK, where she held positions as a researcher, writer, producer and reporter. Her fourteen years at the BBC spanned areas as diverse as children's television, the World Service, religious programmes, arts reporting and current affairs. She spent two years working in radio in Berlin before coming to the United States in 1987, and continuing her reporting career as a freelance for both the BBC and National Public Radio (NPR). In 1991, she joined Monitor Radio, the broadcast division of the Christian Science Monitor, in Boston as a reporter and producer. During a six year tenure at Monitor Radio, Helen's varied roles included producing Early Edition and Midday Edition, and hosting the Monitor Radio World Service, a daily hour-long international program on shortwave. She finds Living on Earth an ideal place to work, both for its subject matter and because its offices lie a short, easy bicycle ride from her Cambridge home. When she's not working, she is a keen if haphazard gardener, and keeps bees.

Gabriela Romanow
Director of Development
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When she's wearing her other hat (as a part-timer with LOE), Gabriela is a partner in an exhibit-development company, Double Exposure, which documents environmental change through the lens of a camera. Prior to her environmental activism, brought on by the mere facts of motherhood and paying attention to the world outside, Gabriela chaired a capital campaign for the renovation and restoration of Brookline's public library, before which she served in both development and communication capacities at ACCION International (microfinance).

Ike Sriskandarjah
Associate Producer; Senior Editor, Planet Harmony
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Aingaran Sriskandarajah, aka "Ike", grew up in an idyllic part of the heartland known as Wisconsin. He's made radio in Providence at Brown University; at KFSK in Petersburg, Alaska; at WNYC's Radiolab and now helps spread environmental and scientific knowledge on LOE and trains young people to do the same at Planet Harmony. When not staring at sound waves, he likes to eat spicy snacks, drink whole milk and play with fireworks.

Jeff Turton
Technical Director
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Jeff has been part of the Boston radio market for 30 years as both a programmer and recording engineer. He started with WBUR in 1978 programming their weekend jazz and then was both Production and Operations Director. Throughout much of the 80's Jeff freelanced and had his own live sound and remote recording company. Clients included NPR, BBC, Australian Broadcasting & WGBH, as well as many of the music clubs in Boston as the house sound mixer. After 3 years as Production Coordinator at WGBH in the mid-80's, Jeff was hired at Monitoradio to get their Early AM & Midday news shows off the ground. He was the EIC of studios at Monitor supervising the studios and production staff prior to their exit from News broadcasting. He then remained on the production staff for the Church's multimedia department, producing and engineering both radio and TV programming for distribution. Over the last 5 plus years, Jeff has once again been involved freelancing in the New England area with his company JT Media. He worked in field operations supporting live news gathering in the field and audio for a variety of TV outlets. He has also been involved providing audio support for the many sports and corporate productions in the New England area. Jeff has worked on the Red Sox, Bruins, Celtics, New England Revolution and numerous College football and basketball broadcasts. Jeff is also still involved in jazz radio, hosting the Jazz Brunch on WFNX. In 2008, he will celebrate 25 years at FNX. Jeff has been Living on Earth's Technical Director since September of 2007.

Jeff Young
Political Analyst/Senior Correspondent
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Jeff started reporting from Capitol Hill to let LOE listeners know how Congress, the courts and White House affect their environment, from climate change and clean air to endangered species protection and energy politics before he came to HQ in Somerville to help host the program. Jeff’s reporting also takes him beyond the beltway to Appalachia’s coal fields and Florida’s Everglades to learn how decisions made in Washington play out.
Jeff is a native of West Virginia and worked for West Virginia Public Broadcasting for a decade before joining LOE. His reporting there twice won the regional Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio and Television News Directors Assoc. Jeff studied journalism and biology at Marshall University and the University of Charleston. He taught broadcast journalism as an adjunct professor at West Virginia University. He and his wife, artist and teacher Helen Payne, live in Massachusetts with their two children but sneak back to West Virginia to hike, bike, boat and ski whenever they can. Jeff is currently the 2012 Donald W. Reynolds Nieman Fellow in Business Journalism at Harvard University.