Dan Pashman is the James Beard and Webby Award-winning creator and host of The Sporkful. He launched the podcast in 2010 after getting laid off from six radio jobs in eight years. At that point he knew he had to either find a way to make a living making a podcast, or go to law school.

In 2021 Dan released cascatelli, a new pasta shape that he invented. He told the story of his three-year quest to create this shape in a series on The Sporkful called Mission: ImPASTAble. The series and pasta were featured by the NY Times, NPR, CBS This Morning, People Magazine, Access Hollywood, and more.

Dan is also the creator and host of Cooking Channel's You're Eating It Wrong and a contributor to NPR and Milk Street Radio. Dan and his work have been featured on The Today Show, Radiolab, Guy's Grocery Games, NPR's Morning Edition, WTF with Marc Maron, Planet Money, Beat Bobby Flay, Freakonomics Radio, and more. Prior to launching The Sporkful Dan was a producer and reporter at NPR, Sirius XM, and Air America Radio. He lives outside New York City with his wife and two daughters.

To invite Dan to speak at your event, email hello [at] sporkful [dot] com.

Emma Morgenstern has produced a bunch of different podcasts, including Lateral Damage (Sports Illustrated), The Queen (Slate), Katie Couric (Stitcher), We Came to Win (Gimlet), Tell Me Something I Don't Know (Dubner Productions), and Dunkumentaries (ESPN). She's a graduate of the Salt Institute. When she was a student at the University of Pennsylvania, she founded the first college food magazine, Penn Appétit, which is still an active publication more than a decade later.

Before joining The Sporkful, Andres was producing stories on news, politics, and immigration for The Takeaway. He spent years producing arts and culture programming for WNYC, where he piloted podcasts and was part of the team that launched All of It with Alison Stewart. His work has appeared on The New Yorker Radio Hour, Studio 360, Gothamist, Milk Street Radio, Eater, and Slate. He has also produced Spanish to English translations for WNYC, Gothamist, The Takeaway, The New Yorker Radio Hour, and The United States of Anxiety.

Johanna Mayer is a producer on The Sporkful. Previously, she hosted and produced Science Diction, from the public radio show Science Friday. Her work has appeared on the Atlas Obscura podcast, The Brian Lehrer Show, and the WNYC newsroom. Before working in audio, she taught English in rural Japan, where she once ate 52 pieces of sushi in one sitting.

Jared O’Connell is Director of Engineering for Stitcher and Earwolf. In addition to The Sporkful, he’s mixed podcasts including Beautiful Stories from Anonymous People, Katie Couric & You Must Remember This. He graduated from NYU’s Music Technology program. When he’s not working in Pro Tools, he’s probably cooking or drinking wine and attempting to write tasting notes.