Marketplace Creators & Guests

Kai Ryssdal is a radio journalist and the host of NPR's Marketplace, a business program that airs weekdays on U.S. public radio stations. He also co-hosts the spinoff podcast Make Me Smart with Molly Wood.

John Buckley is an editor of Marketplace Podcast.

Bridget Bodnar is the senior producer of Marketplace and the Corner Office podcasts.

Betsy Streisand is an editor at Marketplace Podcast.

Sitara Nieves is an executive producer of Marketplace Podcast.

Stephanie Hughes is a senior reporter at Marketplace.

Justin Ho is a reporter at Marketplace.

Lily Jamali is a co-host of the KQED's The California Report podcast.

Heather Boushey is the president and CEO at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, a think tank founded to accelerate cutting-edge analysis into whether and how structural changes in the U.S. economy, particularly related to economic inequality, affect economic growth and stability.

Liz R. Hoffman is a journalist. Currently, she is the Business and Finance Editor at Semafor.Previously, Hoffman was a senior reporter for the Wall Street Journal, where she covered mergers and acquisitions, investment banking, and the coronavirus pandemic’s toll on financial markets.Hoffman received her B.A. in Political Science and Public Health from Tufts University and her M.S. in Journalism from Northwestern University.

Daniel Ackerman is a journalist and audio producer at Marketplace.

Darren Watts (February 17, 1969 – December 31, 2022) was an American game designer who was one of the founders (along with Steve Long) of DOJ Inc. and the president of Hero Games, publishers of roleplaying games using the Hero System such as Champions, Fantasy Hero and Star Hero. He contributed to multiple conventions for Double Exposure, podcasts such as Explain This, Comics Guys!, and wrote, contributed, and edited many other RPGs.

Lauren Leatherby is a graphics editor and visual journalist at The New York Times.

Erin Lydon is the president of Poker Power.

Nadine ElAshkar is the CEO of Lilo Shop.

Dylan Matthews is a journalist. Currently, he is a correspondent for Vox.com, where he was one of the initial founders in 2014.

Sudeep Reddy is a senior managing editor at Politico.

Jennifer Pak is a China correspondent at Marketplace.

Nela Richardson is a chief economist at ADP.