Campside Media is a podcast company that puts storytellers first. we specialize in serialized narrative podcasts reported and hosted by some of the best journalists in the world.

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Our Founders

 

 

Our Team

 

Abukar Adan
Producer

Abukar is a producer and editor. Before joining Campside, he was an education and city government reporter at WJCT News, Northeast Florida's NPR affiliate. He's also worked as a general assignment reporter at Maine Public Radio and a digital producer in television news. Abukar was an Edit Mode inaugural fellow, where he helped edit two features and a mini-series for KALW. He was an assistant instructor of a course in audio storytelling at IFP Media Center and has contributed to NPR News, HuffPost and Science Friday.

Destiny dingle
Operations and FINANCE assistant

Destiny is a growing marketing professional and a native New Yorker with experience in content creation, event management and social media management. She has worked on marketing campaigns including (but not limited to) MTA advertising, higher education partnerships and billboard advertising in Times Square.

She recently graduated from CUNY School of Professional Studies with a master’s degree in business management and leadership, and just two years before that received a bachelor’s degree in biology and studio art. She is passionate about racial justice, environmentalism and animal welfare. When she is not working, you can find her cooking new recipes or exploring the city.

David Eichler
head of finance

David Eichler has a passion for the arts — movies, music and books. His career in media and entertainment has been focused on film, with time spent at New Line Cinema, Bleecker Street and First Look Media. David is a graduate of NYU, a CPA and a master of email composition.

In his spare time, you may find David spending time with family, taking marathon walks or practicing piano.

LAYNE Rose
Senior PRODUCER

Layne Rose is a podcast producer and organic, free-range Midwesterner. She has a master’s degree in sound arts and industries from Northwestern University. She’s worked on Webby award-winning podcasts, judged submissions for the Peabody Awards, and orchestrated complex office pranks at NPR's Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me!

RAJIV GOLLA
SENIOR EDITOR & PRODUCER

Rajiv Golla is a journalist, podcast producer, and unrepentant Floridian. He spent the last few years reporting from East Africa, where he produced The Missionary, an investigative 8-part podcast, for iHeart Radio. His work has appeared in Reuters, Guardian, Vice, and his face has appeared in the B-roll of the Flat Earth documentary Behind the Curve. When he is not working behind deadline, he can be found covered in grease and cussing at whatever vintage vehicle is currently sitting in his driveway.

ALLISON HANEY
Creative Executive

Allison Haney is a recent graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a serious zeal for the podcast industry. Prior to Campside, she reported for Voice of America and worked in nonprofit communications alongside various customer service jobs.

When she’s not listening to her favorite shows, Allison enjoys finding the newest art exhibits and restaurants to try around her.

Johnny Kauffman
SENIOR Producer

Johnny Kauffman is a journalist based in Atlanta. Before joining Campside, he was a reporter for the public radio station WABE, a fellow with the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University and a producer for NPR in Washington, D.C. Johnny has filed stories for The Guardian, This American Life, NPR, Reveal, and Atlanta Magazine, among others.

LINDSEY KILBRIDE
Senior Producer

Lindsey Kilbride is a journalist, podcast producer, and mother of cats. She first kicked off her audio career as an education and city government reporter at WJCT Public Media, her hometown NPR station in Jacksonville, Florida. In 2018, the Florida Associated Press Broadcasters named her best large market radio reporter in the state. That same year, she went on to create several original podcasts including Odd Ball. Lindsey’s hobbies include propagating vegetable scraps and DIY interior design projects.

ashleyanne krigbaum
senior producer

Ashleyanne brings over a decade of deep listening and sonic problem-solving to Campside shows. Before joining Campside, Ashleyanne was a producer and editor based at NPR stations KQED and KALW in San Francisco. She likes to brag about the times she has worked with Pop-Up Magazine, The Heart, This American Life, 99% Invisible, Radiolab, and Reply All. On the weekends, you can find her organizing her collection of records.

Yi-Wen Lai-Tremewan
Studio Manager and Mix Engineer

Yi-Wen is a recording and mixing engineer. Previously, he has had the pleasure of working on numerous musical projects with diverse independent artists in the New York music scene ranging from jazz to indie rock to new music. A graduate of the NYU Music Technology Master's Program, Yi-Wen also worked at NYU for eight years in various capacities, most recently as Technical Director of the Arts & Sciences Music Department.

As a native New Zealander, Yi-Wen is disappointingly bad at rugby and compensates for this by occasionally running to catch the subway. He lives in Brooklyn with his partner, two cats, and a basement full of audio equipment.

Sabina Marra
Operations and Finance Manager

One of those weird people who likes spreadsheets AND music, Sabina double majored in Piano Performance and Creative Writing at Hunter College before realizing that she had a knack for numbers. Since then she’s worked in hospitality, NGOs, and most recently in healthcare as the head finance manager.

In her coveted spare time you’ll find her sampling Manhattan’s best martinis, scuba diving in Central America, or banging out a tune with her homies. Though she’s a NJ native, she tries not to bring it up and now lives in a much cooler neighborhood of Brooklyn.

Emily Martinez
Executive Producer

Emily Martinez is an editor and producer who specializes in longform narrative nonfiction. Over nearly four years at Audible, she led production teams, managed partnerships and helped define the company’s true crime and investigative Originals. She has produced podcasts about the opioid crisis, radicalization, wrongful convictions and World War II.

Emily has a master’s degree in journalism from the Columbia Journalism School. She’s a native New Yorker currently living on the Upper West Side with her boyfriend and a growing collection of low-light plants.

Mark McAdam
Director of Sound Design

Mark McAdam is a songwriter and producer by trade. He’s made dozens of records over the years and his collaborators include members of The Pogues, The Cardigans, Arcade Fire, Bonny Light Horsemen, Cake, The War on Drugs, plus Willie Nelson, Sharon Van Etten and Rain Phoenix, to name a few.

Mark managed to back into podcasting through blind luck and a lifelong fondness for storytelling in all its forms. As such, he’s also worked as a writer, composer, sound designer and mixer on everything from sitcoms to art films, for just about every major network and studio. His projects have earned Oscars, Emmys and Peabody Awards, though he is particularly proud of his inane parody songs for the WNYC pledge drive.

Mark grew up in New Hampshire, studied in Boston, moved to Los Angeles, spent years touring the country and finally settled down in New York City. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and kids. Hobbies include street hockey and cocktails.

Michael Canyon Meyer
senior writer

Michael Canyon Meyer has written multiple chart-topping podcasts, including the series Waco for American Scandal and the miniseries The Mysterious Mr. Epstein, one of the top 10 new podcasts of 2019. His narrative journalism has appeared in magazines including Outside and the Virginia Quarterly Review, and he’s collaborated with many filmmakers worldwide on documentaries, screenplays and music videos. A former senior writer for the Columbia Journalism Review, his essays won the Mirror Award for Commentary.

Anthony Pucillo
Vice President of Television

 

Anthony Pucillo has worked as a television writer for AMC, HBO Max, TBS, WGN America and Yahoo, and as a creative consultant for HBO. He has also written and produced live television for WWE, traveling the country with professional wrestlers for over a year. Anthony’s previous experience in podcasting includes co-writing and producing the first three seasons of USA Today and Wondery’s The Sneak.  

Anthony grew up in the Boston area, the Toronto area and a half-dozen other areas. He graduated from Columbia University and now lives in Los Angeles.

Shoshi Shmuluvitz
Managing producer/editor

Shoshi Shmuluvitz writes, produces and edits audio documentaries and narrative podcasts on anything from politics to true crime to the story of a woman who had sex with her husband’s ghost. Before joining Campside, she was a senior producer at Transmitter Media, where she produced shows including Tabloid, a Webby-nominated serialized investigation into Ivanka Trump; Imposters: The Spy, a chart-topping investigative series on Spotify; Meltdown, a look at how the disastrous mishandling of the 2008 financial crisis led to the rise of Donald Trump; and many other shows. Before that, she was the senior producer at PRI's America Abroad, a monthly public radio program on foreign policy and international affairs. Her work has been featured on Snap Judgment, Women of the Hour, Israel Story and more.

Emma Simonoff
Development and Executive Assistant

Emma Simonoff is a new-ish graduate of Boston University whose work in documentary film and love of mysteries brought her to Campside. She has previously worked as an artist’s assistant, camp counselor, shoe saleswoman and screenplay reader. Emma recently moved from San Francisco to Brooklyn to escape the fog, and can be found baking or collecting fun facts.

Doug Slawin
Director of Operations

Doug Slawin is a certified project manager. Beyond his love of spreadsheets and Gantt charts, he is a composer having written original music for the radio and television versions of This American Life and Esther Perel's How's Work. At Campside, Doug composed the original score for Suspect seasons I and II, the theme for Eclipsed, and contributed original tracks to the series Hooked. Doug has served as a mix engineer for the TED podcast Far Flung and the social policy podcast Finding Common Purpose. When not working in the podcast world, Doug provides on-site audio recording services for orchestras, recitals, and other live music events.

Garrett Tiedemann
Mix Engineer, Sound Designer and Production Associate

Garrett Tiedemann is a sound designer, composer, mix engineer and filmmaker. He first began working in podcasts with his indie project The White Whale and has since produced and engineered for a number of nonprofit organizations and diverse outlets such as Reveal, Here Be Monsters, Darknet Diaries, Financial Times, and Crimes of the Centuries. His work often draws on mixtapes, zines and cinematic montage in an effort to find subtle, yet unique ways to turn a story on its head and expand our expectations of what the medium can achieve.

He holds bylines as a music/film critic and culture writer for publications like Anobium and Minnesota Public Radio, where he spent years illuminating for listeners and readers the diverse ways that classical music exists in the world and how we encounter it every day.

Currently, he lives in Minnesota and loves spending time with his family, biking, gardening, listening to his vinyl collection, and catching up on an ever-expanding list of books, films, TV and podcasts.

Ashley warren
Production manager

Ashley Warren has worked as a development coordinator and producer for Stitcher and Best Case Studios. Before she found the world of podcasts, she worked as a stage manager in theaters from Arizona to Maine. She attended Arizona State University where she received a B.A. in Theatre. When she’s not knitting and listening to podcasts, she’s raising her two cats in Brooklyn. 

Natalia Winkelman
Producer

Natalia Winkelman is a podcast producer at Campside Media and a frequent contributor to The New York Times, where she writes film reviews. Her writing on entertainment and culture has also appeared in Slate, The Daily Beast, and IndieWire. Natalia holds a B.A. in film studies from Columbia University and an M.A. in cultural reporting and criticism from NYU. She lives in Brooklyn and can often be found wandering Prospect Park with her anxious dog, Winston.

Contributing Editors and Producers

 

ERIC BENSON

Eric Benson is a magazine writer and podcast host and producer based in Austin, TX. His award-winning longform features on politics, sports, film and technology have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, and Texas Monthly. Underdog, his campaign-trail podcast about Beto O’Rourke's campaign for the U.S. Senate, was named one of the Guardian’s 15 favorite podcasts of 2018 and called “masterly” and “invigorating” by The New Yorker. In 2019, he and Campside co-founder Matt Shaer co-created the limited-run podcast series Over My Dead Body, which has been downloaded more than 20 million times and is currently being developed into a streaming show for HBOMax.

 

KAREN DUFFIN

Karen Duffin is a longform reporter and editor. Most recently, she was a co-host of NPR's Planet Money, and before that a reporter at This American Life and More Perfect. Karen’s stories have appeared on Radiolab, Reply All, Rough Translation, On the Media, The Rumpus and others. She is also a live storytelling performer for shows like The Moth and Pop Up Magazine, and taught/teaches audio documentary at Columbia, NYU and CUNY Graduate Schools of Journalism.

 

Natalie robehmed

Natalie is an award-winning journalist and writer raised in Dubai and currently living in Los Angeles. Currently the EP on Infamous, she wrote the chart-topping WeCrashed series, which was adapted for screen by Apple TV+, as well as several hit seasons of Business Wars and Even the Rich. Prior to working in podcasts, Natalie was at Forbes covering the business of media and entertainment, where she reported several high-profile cover stories.

 

Justine van der Leun

Justine van der Leun is an independent journalist and the author of several nonfiction books, including We Are Not Such Things. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Harper's, The New York Review of Books, New York, and The Guardian, among others. Justine is also the host and co-producer of the investigative podcast Believe Her. Justine has received grants and fellowships from the Emerson Collective, New America, Type Media Center, the Pulitzer Center, the Robert B. Silvers Foundation, the Logan Nonfiction Program, and PEN America. Her journalism has won the Sigma Delta Chi Award, the Gracie Award, the Signal Award, and the iHeart Radio Award.

 

ELIZABETH VAN BROCKLIN

Elizabeth Van Brocklin is a journalist, storyteller, and producer. Previously she covered gun issues for The Trace, where her collaboration on an NBC feature about Philadelphia cops speeding gunshot victims to hospitals earned an Emmy nomination. Her written work has appeared in The Washington Post, Slate, The Guardian, Women’s Health, and Cosmopolitan, among other outlets. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and young daughter.