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Sarah Hulett became Michigan Radio's assistant news director in August 2011. For five years she was the station's Detroit reporter, and contributed to several reporting projects that won state and national awards.

When Jon isn’t reporting, he oversees special projects, such as the presidential primary and is a nationally recognized innovator in radio-web integration.

Jeff Ramirez is Vice President for Radio at KERA. Ramirez, who joined the KERA staff in 2006, is responsible for directing the overall sound of both KERA 90.1 FM and KXT 91.7 FM, serving as executive producer of local programming and special programs for local and/or national broadcast, and selecting programs from regional and national producers. Ramirez is a well-traveled public broadcasting veteran, having worked across the United States in Anchorage, Alaska; Washington, D.C.; San Francisco and San Diego. He came to Texas after working at Alaska Public Media, and also previously served as Manager of Radio Projects and Programming at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) in Washington, D.C., and as a general manager and senior producer for public radio stations in San Francisco and San Diego. Ramirez has a B.A. in journalism from San Diego State University. He currently resides in Grand Prairie with his wife, Erin, their dog and two cats.

Former KERA staffer Jeff Whittington was executive producer for special projects and Think, as well as host of Anything You Ever Wanted to Know. He also created and launched the KXT Live Sessions series for KXT 91.7.

Composer and author Tom Manoff has been the classical music critic for NPR's All Things Considered since 1985.

Susan Jane Gilman, whose reviews and commentaries can be heard regularly on All Things Considered, is a journalist, fiction writer and bestselling author of three nonfiction books: Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress, Kiss My Tiara: How to Rule the World as a SmartMouth Goddess and, most recently, Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven, a memoir about a naive and disastrous trek Gilman made through Communist China in 1986.

Sylvia Komatsu is chief content officer for KERA/KXT. She often tells people she “grew up” at KERA, beginning her career at the station in 1979 as a reporter for a nightly news analysis program. Over the next several years, she produced and executive produced documentaries and specials on a wide range of social, political and cultural issues. She now oversees a content division that includes radio, television, educational services and related Web content. She conceived and developed the national Emmy Award-winning series, The U.S.-Mexican War (1846-1848). As executive and series producer, she oversaw this multimedia project, including a companion book, classroom materials and a bilingual website, which received multiple honors. Among her many national public television credits as program executive are Sweet Tornado: Margo Jones and the American Theater, JFK: Breaking the News, Matisse & Picasso, For A Deaf Son, and After Goodbye: An AIDS Story. A native of Fort Worth, Sylvia is a graduate of Harvard University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She and her husband, George, live in Dallas.

Tom Banse covers business, environment, public policy, human interest and national news across the Northwest. He reports from well known and out–of–the–way places in the region where important, amusing, touching, or outrageous events are unfolding. Tom's stories can be heard during "Morning Edition," "Weekday," and "All Things Considered" on NPR stations in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.