Meet our Board of Directors
Nick Andersen
Treasurer
Nick is an audio producer based right on the border between Cambridge and Somerville, Massachusetts. (Seriously—the city limits run through his house.) The first-ever archives producer for the NPR / WHYY interview and culture magazine Fresh Air with Terry Gross and Tonya Mosley, Nick is also the senior producer and a co-creator of the founding Hub & Spoke podcast Ministry of Ideas.
Previously a Webby- and Signal-Award-winning podcast producer for WGBH's MASTERPIECE and a producer for WBUR's On Point Radio, Nick is originally from the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan and is a graduate of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ira Glass once told Nick an audio piece he made about his older brother was ‘probably a little too mean,’ and unsurprisingly, Ira was right.
Tamar Avishai
Co-founder, Vice President, and Secretary
Tamar is co-founder and a founding member of Hub & Spoke, and the creator and host of the award-winning art history podcast The Lonely Palette. She is currently the senior producer of ParentData with Emily Oster, and has been a freelance producer for PRX’s Monumental, The Free Press, Slate, WBUR, and others. She has produced podcast episodes for Harvard Art Museums, Storm King Art Center, and SFMoMA, and has been the podcaster-in-residence for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the National Gallery in Washington, DC.
She lives in Cleveland, by way of Boston, with her husband, two curly-headed little boys, and a wonderfully equanimous gray kitty.
Zach Davis
Director
Zach is the executive director of Faith Matters and the dditor of Wayfare Magazine. He is also the founder and principal of Lyceum, an educational media studio, and the host and executive producer of the podcasts Writ Large, Ministry of Ideas, Making Meaning and Illuminations. Zach is a founding member of Hub & Spoke and the organizer of the Sound Education conference. Previously, Zach was vice president for content at Himalaya Media and a founding producer at HarvardX.
He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts with his wife, Mariya and their three children.
Yooree Losordo
Director
Yooree is the Director of Network Operations at Radiotopia from PRX. She is responsible for the day-to-day workings of the storied podcast network, supporting independent podcasts as they work towards achieving success on their own terms.
Yooree acts as the managing producer of Radiotopia Presents, an anthology podcast of limited series from the most exciting emerging voices in audio. Shows she’s recently helped launch: The Recipe with Kenji and Deb, Hang Up, Weight For It, and Radiotopia Presents series Shocking, Heartbreaking, Transformative; Bot Love; My Mother Made Me.
Ma’ayan Plaut
Director
Ma’ayan is an award-winning writer and strategist who pioneered the use of social media in higher education, where she learned to love experimentation, learning, and that moment where things click into place when someone understands something for the first time…and she’s been chasing that feeling ever since. She is the artist formerly known as the (world’s first) Podcast Librarian at RadioPublic and has worked on audience engagement, growth, and development for independent podcasts at PRX and for accessible media at 3Play Media.
You’ll find Ma’ayan surrounded by creative people, their work, and the audiences who will love them—in any medium.
Nina Porzucki
Director
Nina is an audio producer based in Boston. She currently produces the comedy podcast Parenting is a Joke with Ophira Eisenberg as well as the history show Face-Off: The US vs. China with Jane Perlez. She also created and produced the fiction podcast Bird Talk which was an official selection at the 2024 Tribeca Festival. Previously, she directed podcasting efforts at GBH, launching shows such Detours (from Antiques Roadshow) and the Molly of Denali podcast. She’s also worked as a reporter and producer on the radio program The World and Subtitle (formerly, The World in Words).
Early in her career, Nina had a penchant for joining corps; first the Peace Corps in Romania and then traveling around the U.S. recording oral histories for StoryCorps. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School. Her work has aired on the BBC, NPR, and PRI/PRX as well as the podcatcher that you love best.
Wade Roush
Co-founder and President
Wade is an author, journalist, audio producer, and consultant. He hosts and produces Soonish, a journalistic podcast about technology and the future, and co-founded Hub & Spoke in 2017.
In 2020 he published Extraterrestrials, a book about the history of the idea of alien life that is part of the MIT Press’s Essential Knowledge series. He is the editor or co-editor of several science fiction anthologies, including Twelve Tomorrows (MIT Press, 2018) and Tasting Light (MITeen Press, 2022).
Wade has been a staff writer, editor, and/or columnist for Science, MIT Technology Review, Xconomy, and Scientific American, and is the former acting director of MIT’s Knight Science Journalism program, the world’s premier mid-career fellowship program for science writers. In addition to his journalistic work, he consults with technology startups and venture capital firms on communications and storytelling projects.
Wade earned a B.A. in history and science from Harvard University and a PhD in the history and social study of science and technology from MIT. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his dog Gryphon.