TEAM
Before creating the Snap Judgment radio show, Glynn worked as an educator, diplomat, community activist, actor, political strategist, fist-shaker, mountain-hollerer, and foot stomper.
Glynn composed music for the Kunst Stoff dance performances in San Francisco, rocked live spoken word poetry in Detroit, joined a band in Indonesia, wrote several screenplays, painted a daring series of self portraits, released a blues album, and thinks his stories are best served with cocktails.
Mark Ristich founded Snap Judgment with Glynn. Mark records, writes, edits and produces for Snap Judgment and has no other interests.
Marisa is the Director of Production for Snap Judgment & Spooked. Before joining the Snap Studios Fam, she worked at the San Francisco Chronicle, KPFA Radio, and CBS Radio. She was also the Station Director of her college’s radio station, producing a weekly French music show called Le Meilleur Radio.
She enjoys black and white films, park picnics, Dave Brubeck, martinis, and wide-leg pants.
Managing Editor
Nancy López is a senior producer at Snap Judgment. She started in radio in 2006 when she joined Soul Rebel Radio, a collective of novice storytellers in Los Angeles. Since then, she’s worked as a producer for Radio Ambulante and Making Contact.
Her stories have been featured on PRI’s The World, KALW in San Francisco, and Radio Bilingue.
Senor Editor
Davey Kim (he/him) is the senior editor at Snap Judgment Studios. Most recently, he was the creator of Adult ISH, an interview and storytelling show by YR Media x PRX’s Radiotopia. Prior to that, he was a producer and sound designer at Snap Judgment.
Outside of audio, his side hustles and hobbies include bike polo, point and shoot film, and mastering his sous vide.
editor at large
Anna Sussman has been trying to report serious stories but really has been reporting on frivolity for the past nine years. She earned two masters degrees from the University of California at Berkeley, in Journalism and Human Rights, and founded Backpackjournalist.org with her husband, reporting stories on U.S military debacles, international war tribunals and man-eating crocodiles from 21 countries.
Anna comes to Snap Judgment from the wilds of the freelance jungle where she reported for CNN, Current TV, PRI, and the San Francisco Chronicle. She also plays the banjo and can be spotted in a Thai sports drink commercial.
Regina Bediako has produced features for media shops like HuffPost, Discovery Channel, NHK Japan Broadcasting and Epic (Vox Media). She enjoys dessert-based tourism and nerding out on storytelling devices via TV Tropes dot org.
Teo is the graphic artist and video editor for Snap Judgment and Spooked. They were born and raised in San Diego to Filipinx immigrant parents. Teo traded palm trees for redwoods to receive a degree in Film & Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz.
After college, Teo moved to Oakland where they worked as a bike mechanic and documentary filmmaker before landing at Snap.
Senior Producer
John Fecile is an audio producer, filmmaker, and storyteller. His work has appeared on NPR and been featured in The Guardian, The New York Times, and Al Jazeera. He has won awards in the US and UK, including Bronze at the 2017 Third Coast International Audio Festival for his documentary Blink Once for Yes.
He is a co-founder of The Trump Diaries Project (KCRW) and contributes to 99% Invisible and Curious City (WBEZ). His first show was a college radio series called “The Pea-Sized Professor” about a mad scientist who accidentally shrinks himself; hijinks ensue.
Senior Sound Designer
Renzo Gorrio is a San Francisco based producer, musician, and sound designer. Gorrio and his family immigrated from Peru to the U.S. in ’84, moving to Miami, Florida where he grew up. As a teenager, he began to play in bands and also explore electronic music and sound engineering.
In 2010 he moved to the Bay Area and joined Snap Judgment in 2011. In March 2019 Gorrio established Nebleena Media, a label for releasing music, video, art, and software.
Over the last few years, Gorrio has collaborated with other local musicians to create and perform new original scores to iconic films such as Fantasia, Akira, and Mad Max: Fury Road. His solo project, “Hydroplane,” has been billed alongside acts such as Telefon Tel Aviv, Legowelt, Machinedrum, Cylob, Daedelus and The Flashbulb.
Senior Producer
Hailing from Birmingham, AL, Shaina’s work has taken her to a thorn forest in India, an ice cream shop in Gaza, mushroom houses in the Rwandan hills, a home for retired actresses in Myanmar, and many strawberry farms in the Palestinian Territories.
A lot of her stories are driven by her interests in women’s health and safety, the Middle East and, her favorites, food and agriculture. In her free time, Shaina makes very elaborate snacks.
She is the host and producer of the series A Tiny Plot.
Florene Wiley is the Operations Manager at Snap Judgment. Flo is a veteran arts administrator having worked with non-profit arts and social service organizations such as the Apollo Theater, Scholastic Inc., Uniworld Advertising, the City College of New York, and the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce among others.
She has worked in radio since 2001 as producer/host of The Flo Wiley Show and has lived in Oakland, New York City, and Lagos, Nigeria.
Senior Audio Producer
Pat Mesiti-Miller produces that signature Snap Judgment sound. He is a phonetic fanatic, sonic sensationalist, and vinyl visionary. As a freelance sound engineer and artist, Pat has produced audio content for commercials, films, music records, and engineered a live comedy show for multiple seasons.
He heads his own hip hop production studio where he writes, records, and mixes original music.
Producer
Bo Walsh is a graduate of the KALW Audio Academy and makes stories at Snap Judgment.