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With inspiration from her sisters and parents, Rachel developed an eclectic taste in music early on in life. Growing up in the foothills of North Carolina, Rachel often enjoyed going to concerts and listening to all kinds of music, both new and old.

Victoria Hansen is our Lowcountry connection covering the Charleston community, a city she knows well. She grew up in newspaper newsrooms and has worked as a broadcast journalist for more than 20 years. Her first reporting job brought her to Charleston where she covered local and national stories like the Susan Smith murder trial and the arrival of the Citadel’s first female cadet.

Lakshmi Singh is a midday newscaster and a guest host for NPR, which she joined in 2000.

Bart Trotman is a crate-digger, a drummer, a guitarist, a songwriter, a casiotone hoarder, a record collector, an experimental music creator, a neo-luddite, a cassette tape enthusiast and is now a DJ for ARC Overnight.

Thomas Lu (he/him) is a producer for NPR's science podcast, Short Wave. The podcast is a perfect equation of curiosity, nerdiness and everyday discoveries.

Chris Benderev is a founding producer of and also reports stories for NPR's documentary-style podcast, Embedded. He's driven into coal mines, watched as a town had to shutter its only public school after 100 years in operation, and, recently, he's followed the survivors of a mass shooting for two years to understand what happens after they fade from the news. He's also investigated the pseudoscience behind a national chain of autism treatment facilities. As a producer, he's made stories about ISIS, voting rights and Donald Trump's business history. Earlier in his career, he was a producer at NPR's Weekend Edition, Morning Edition, Hidden Brain and the TED Radio Hour.