Producers

T.H. Ponders (or Ponders for short) (they/them) is a podcaster, writer of poetry, essay, criticism, and fiction, as well as a  mathematician, dancer, musicologist, composer, performer, web designer, art museum enthusiast, amateur F. Scott Fitzgerald biographer, Homeric translator, and board game hobbyist. 

Ponders visits museums, finds interesting stories, researches, writes, records, edits and produces Accession.

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Ana O’Daniel (they/them) is a writer, editor, sensitivity reader, and social worker who is very enthusiastic about birds. When not critically analyzing everything within an inch of its life, Ana enjoys long walks in nature, delicious teas and baked goods, and telling Ponders to write the next episode, to no avail.  

Ana is a script editor, writer, and producer for Season 2 of Accession. You can also here their voice in the travel minisodes.

Episode Producers

Keisha "TK" Dutes (she/her) is an independent audio producer and co-host of TK in The AM, recently celebrating 1000 episodes of live streaming morning radio on Bondfire Radio. With experience spanning terrestrial radio (WBAI-NY) , online, podcast (Buzzfeed's "Thirst Aid Kit") and audio drama, her life is in audio is all encompassing. TK's has a passion for Black audio drama, having produced W.E.B DuBois' The Comet, and  The Weeksvile Project, a story about about a free Black community Brooklyn, N.Y. She also spreads the gospel of radio and podcasting through workshops and mentorship, and was recently listed on Current.org's "Black Talents in Public Media You Should Know." Currently, she is on the board of the Association of Independents in Radio, an audio producer at Glitch, a technology company bringing back the open web; as well as working with Roxane Gay and Tressie McMillan- Cottom as an Executive Producing Consultant on their podcast, Hear To Slay on Luminary. 

Keisha produced 18: 1943- Nightlife, Welcome to New Orleans, and 23: Take Me to the Water, and her voice can be heard as the patron in 18: 1943- Nightlife.

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Charles Gustine (he/him) is the host of ICONography, a podcast about the geography of icons.

He wrote and performed 17: 1943- Thanksgiving, and appeared as the voice actor of Stanley Kubrick in 10: Moon Museum, Giorgio Vassari in 14: The Master’s Teacher, and Piet Mondrian in 22: Moving Pieces.

Collaborators

Jeanette Berry (they/them) is a singer, songwriter, educator, composer, and content creator navigating the Music and Art world in NYC. Listen to their EP, Solivagant, on all streaming platforms (Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube) and their website.

Jeanette was the vocal director for 23: Take Me to the Water, and the voice of the young person in that episode.

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Conscious or C. (he/him) is a multi-disciplinary artist, entrepreneur and modern day philosopher. Lending voice to an unbridled New York morning show as co-host of TK in The AM and curator of its music. One of the founders of independent radio station Bondfire Radio, part of a career of nearly two decades devoted to creating spaces for artists, public speakers and motivated thinkers as well as building progressive communities that enrich their many members. "Love, Peace & Equanimity." are three words he lives by that are apparent in all of the work that he's involved with.

Conscious voices James the Bouncer in 18: 1943- Nightlife, the Man of the Mississippi in Welcome to New Orleans, and was the recording technician and a choir member for 23: Take Me to the Water.

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Beth Crane (she/her) is the writer and co-lead voice actor of We Fix Space Junk, a show about two female repairmen travelling the galaxy (with an obscene amount of student debt). She has also written episodes for two anthology shows, the BBC's Murmurs podcast and Historic Royal Palace's podcast Outliers, both released in January 2020.

Beth played Hamlet in episode 15: Three Ghosts.

Casey Dawson (he/him) is a recording engineer at the Wachusett Recording Company in Princeton, MA. As a session player, producer and arranger, he collaborates with bands, songwriters and artists of all kinds to help them achieve the highest quality in their recordings. If you’re working on a creative project, reach out.

Casey recorded, edited, and produced the theme music for Accession, and provided additional recording and mixing on 15: Three Ghosts. 

Mike Dunbar (he/him) is a singer-songwriter based in Nashville. His songwriting runs the gamut from driving pop to introspective folk and Americana. He has been awarded grants from the Mellon Foundation and the College of the Holy Cross to compose his original music. His work has been featured in the Boston Globe as well as on The River and New Hampshire Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.”

Mike’s music is featured prominently in Season 2 of Accession, with a track accompanying each travel mini-sode.

Chad Ellis (he/him) is a Los Angeles based writer and sound designer known for his work on Station Blue and Hit the Bricks.

Chad is the voice of the Park Ranger in Welcome to Joshua Tree.

Mel Flannery (she/her) is a NYC and Hudson Valley based singer, and voice over artist and composer. She enjoys flexing her muscle of versatility more than anything else and is as comfortable singing in her grunge/indie band, itsjustpythons, recording background vocals for a singer/songwriter or soul artist, or fronting a classic big band. She holds a Bachelor's of Music Arts in Jazz Voice Performance from Manhattan School of Music and studied voice acting with Bruce Kronenberg of Abacus Entertainment. You may have heard her viral political parody sensation, "Hold Me Closer, Bernie Sanders" during the 2016 primaries, the jingles and segues she composed and sang for the podcast, "Weddings-ish with Jove," her ads for Goodwill on Pandora, or her background singing with countless artists, including Matt and Kim, Lettuce, and Kevin Morby.

Mel is a member of the congregation in 23: Take Me to the Water.

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Leslie Gideon (she/her) is a New York based Latin-American voice actor and writer. In her free time, she enjoys watching soccer, studying languages, and reading classic science fiction. Find more of her work at on her website, including the narrative soccer podcast that she hosts, Sideline Tackle.

Leslie was the voice of the statue in 19: Night.

Morgan Givens (he/him, they/them) is a storyteller, writer and freelance audio producer based in Washington DC. He’s a graduate of the Transom Storytelling workshop, and an AIR New Voices scholar in 2018. He’s appeared at Grandslams and Mainstage performances for The Moth and NPRs Invisibilia, and has been interviewed by NPRs Morning Edition Noel King about how critically-acclaimed and award winning HopePunk podcast Flyest Fables.

Morgan Gives is the voice of Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks in 18: 1943- Nightlife.

Noonie Greene (she/her) is a Brooklyn princess warrior. Her motto is to be present while you are present. Laugh until you cry. Love so hard it's the Brooklyn way.

Noonie is a member of the congregation in 23: Take Me to the Water.

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V Silverman (they/them) is a nonbinary graphic artist and podcast enthusiast with a background in biology and drama. A Nice Jewish Queer from Asheville, NC, in their spare time V manages the fortnightly podcast Fuzzy Logic, plays D&D, and peddles flowery anti-oppression stickers to nice folks like you.

V made the show art for seasons one and two, designed the logo for Accession, and made additional art for 9: Changing Landscapes. They were also a voice actor on 11: The Obstacle Remover and 16: Nighthawks.

Jason Randall Smith (he/him) is a writer, podcaster, and sonic curator. He's been known to respond to the name Macedonia, a longtime pseudonym used as host for Both Sides Of The Surface (Radio BSOTS), a music podcast dedicated to underground and independent artists "from around the way to around the world." In addition, he is the current Music Director at Bondfire Radio, where the live broadcast version of Radio BSOTS can be heard every other Friday from 8:30 - 10:00 p.m Eastern Standard Time.

Jason was a member of the choir in 23: Take Me to the Water.

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Yhane Smith (she/her) is creator, writer and producer of Harlem Queen and audio drama based on the life and times of Madame Stephanie St. Clair, "Numbers Queen" and patron of the Harlem Renaissance.

She is the voice of the Older Woman in 23: Take Me to the Water.

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Steven Strickland (he/him) is an actor, director, and host born and raised in Newark, NJ has loved the arts since at the early age of four, while performing in school and church theater. After graduating from Essex Catholic High School (East Orange, NJ), he furthered his education at Wagner College (Staten Island, NY) as a Theater Arts Major and recipient of the Alumni Theater Scholarship. Over the course of his 20 year career, he’s performed in a host of theatrical productions, and films. Including recent Co-Star appearances on the Investigation Discovery Channel ( Evil Lives Here/ Homicide City/Primal Instinct), a feature film "A Nice Girl Like You" starring Lucy Hale, and NBC's "The Village". Having directed 6 short plays, 4 short films, 2 Web Series', 2 fashion photo shoots, and co-directed 2 Off-Broadway plays, his passion for the work makes him not only an actor’s director, but a great director to work with. Steven recently added "producer" to his credits with his short film "Sordid" under his new production company, Strickland Media Group. Be on the lookout for Steven on stages and silver screens near you.

Steven voiced the Reverend for 23: Take Me to the Water.

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Ronald Young Jr. (he/him) is an audio producer and storyteller based out of Alexandria VA. He hosts and produces two podcasts 'Time Well Spent' and "Leaving the Theater" through his production company ohitsBigRon studios LLC. He is passionate about social justice and is also a junior pastor at his local church Greater Refuge Temple in NE Washington DC. Ronald hates small talk, loves watching and discussing pop culture, race, politics and everything in between. He is an over-thinker, which leads him to have an opinion on everything, but prides himself on trying to educate himself through asking questions and simple google searches. Obviously he wrote this bio. He hopes you like it. He's concerned you think it's too self-indulgent.

Ronald was the voice of Alain Locke in 18: 1943- Nightlife.

The first season of Accession also featured additional voice acting from Clayton Heidbreder, Courtney Swenson, and Adam Ugrinow and voice acting and production from Amanda Borglund.