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Host Lee Hunsaker presents two powerful stories from the Grandin Theatre: Sarah Kennedy’s moving tale of her son Calum’s connection to butterflies and their family’s journey through diagnosis, grief, and eventual acceptance, and Lizetta Staplefoote’s candid story of going to jail, hiding the truth from her children, and finding redemption through honesty.Both stories explore transformation, resilience, and the healing power of truth and community.

Host Lee Hunsaker presents onstage stories and studio interviews exploring long friendships at a turning point and the search for belonging. Ruth Cassell-Huynh reflects on grief, sobriety, and the silence that can grow between friends over 25 years, while Nalliene Chavez recounts moving from Puerto Rico and how hair and clothing shaped her identity in America.

Lexington native Brenna Angel anchored local morning newscasts for WUKY through May 13. She joined the station in March 2010 after previously working for WHAS-AM in Louisville.

Liz Halloran joined NPR in December 2008 as Washington correspondent for Digital News, taking her print journalism career into the online news world.

Devin Katayama joined WFPL News in summer 2011. He adds to the newsroom a diverse perspective having lived and reported in major cities across the U.S. and spending time in Peru reporting on human trafficking. Devin earned the 2011 Studs Terkel Community Media Scholarship Award for his report on homeless youth in Chicago. He reports on education affairs in Kentucky and Indiana.

Fred Echols is a producer/reporter for Radio IQ.

Joshua Day is part of the operations area of WVTF/RADIO IQ as the Radio Reading Service assistant producer.

Steve has been with VPR since 1994, first serving as host of VPR’s public affairs program and then as a reporter, based in Central Vermont. Many VPR listeners recognize Steve for his special reports from Iran, providing a glimpse of this country that is usually hidden from the rest of the world. Prior to working with VPR, Steve served as program director for WNCS for 17 years, and also worked as news director for WCVR in Randolph. A graduate of Northern Arizona University, Steve also worked for stations in Phoenix and Tucson before moving to Vermont in 1972. Steve has been honored multiple times with national and regional Edward R. Murrow Awards for his VPR reporting, including a 2011 win for best documentary for his report, Afghanistan's Other War.

Sam worked at Vermont Public Radio from October 1978 to September 2017 in various capacities – almost always involving audio engineering. He excels at sound engineering for live performances.

Jeremy Hobson is the new co-host of Here and Now. Since October of 2010, he has been hosting has been hosting American Public Media's Marketplace Morning Report heard on RADIO IQ and RADIO IQ With BBC News. As host of Marketplace Morning Report, Jeremy has interviewed hundreds of people, including Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, Chef Daniel Boulud and Fashion Designer Cynthia Rowley. Hobson started at Marketplace in 2007 as a reporter in the Washington D.C. bureau. He has also covered Wall Street and its impact on ordinary Americans for Marketplace, based in the New York City bureau. He started reporting from New York one week before Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008.