Born in Livingstone, Zambia, Lewis Yuyi is a radio presenter and producer currently with Radio Christian Voice.  Previously, Yuyi was a presenter and producer with Zambezi FM, which had a listenership not only in Zambia but also in nearby Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Namibia. Yuyi is the youngest of seven children.

Alexandra Tyan is a Russian-born multimedia journalist currently based in Rome, Italy. A Sciences Po and LSE graduate, she has worked with Coda Story, GIJN, France Télévisions, her work has been published in The Guardian, The Calvert Journal, The Moscow Times, RFI, France Info, Istituto Affari Internazionali, and VC.ru. She also co-produces Obvious, a podcast about overlooked aspects of obvious things. She reports and writes in English, Russian, French and Italian.

Bartholomäus Laffert, born in 1995, is a freelance journalist currently based in Addis Ababa. He´s mainly working for radio and print media on migration and the externalization of the EU’s outer borders. For this purpose, he traveled in the past years to the Balkans, East Africa, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and the Central Med. He´s reporting for outlets like Der Spiegel, Deutsche Welle, The Guardian, The New Humanitarian, ZDF and Deutschlandfunk.

Angel Bwalya Kasabo is a radio presenter at Radio Christian Voice in Zambia.  He grew up in Lusaka, and was a fan of radio since he was a child, although back then he did not see himself as having a career in radio.  A graduate of Copperstone University in Kitwe, Zambia, Kasabo is an avid sports player as well, enjoying football, tennis, and swimming.

Moritz Heidegger is an audio engineer and composer based in Vienna, Austria. He is currently working as a freelancer in a broad spectrum of fields ranging from music production, recording, mixing and mastering to sound design and film scoring, working with pretty much everything involving sound with great love for detail. He has been studying sound engineering since 2016 at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

Judith Chetrit is a Paris-based features writer and audio documentary producer. She mostly covers labour issues and public policies. Her clients include French public radio (Radio France, France Culture…), Le Monde Diplomatique, and specialized publications such as magazines focused on social and economic issues.

Kukka Maria Ahokas is Finnish author and journalist for the culture magazine Voima. Principally, she writes reports and chronicles for the print press.  In addition to her native Finnish language, she works in Spanish, English and Swedish.  She has close ties to Peru, where she has lived on several occasions. In 2021, she works in Lima with a grant from the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture, writing a non-fiction book on Gen Z political activism.

Astrig Agopian is a French-Armenian freelance journalist based between Paris and Yerevan. Born and raised in Marseille, she earned a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and a Master’s degree in Journalism and International Affairs from Sciences Po Paris. She works as a reporter and camerawoman and has been published in various media (print, radio, TV) : Agence France-Presse, Euronews, Radio Télévision Suisse,The Guardian and others.

Nadene Ghouri is the host of On Spec’s Season Four.

An award-winning journalist specialising in human interest and human rights issues, Nadene freelances for major publications including The Guardian and The Mail On Sunday and is a former correspondent of both the BBC and Al Jazeera English. Nadene has reported from around the globe, including the Middle East, Africa and Asia. She lived for 7 years in Afghanistan, and is widely regarded as a specialist on Afghan issues.

Today she also works as a screenwriter and is a New York Times bestselling non-fiction author.

Fariba Nawa has been covering global news for 25 years from places like Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Pakistan and now Turkey. She is also a speaker and author of the book Opium Nation: Child Brides, Drug Lords and One Woman’s Journey through Afghanistan. A native Afghan, Fariba’s fluent in Farsi/Dari and can get by in Arabic and Turkish. Some recent work can be found in The World, Time, The Christian Science Monitor,  The New Yorker, and The Financial Times.