PRX Productions is a team of audio directors, editors, sound designers, engineers and producers that specialize in the highest quality audio production and storytelling. We help make audio in all forms: podcasts, broadcast shows, experiential audio, and sonic identifiers for our partners.

The PRX Productions team has over 30 years of experience working in audio from public media broadcast shows like “Studio 360,” to the New York Times, to hit podcasts like “Over the Road” and “TEDx Shorts.” We work with our partners to ensure success by supporting them with services that meet their needs. We believe in work that aligns with PRX’s mission of supporting diverse, inclusive, and impactful stories and storytellers.

Production Unit

Featured

Jocelyn Gonzales
Executive Producer of PRX Productions

Jocelyn Gonzales is the award-winning Executive Producer of PRX Productions. Previously, she was Executive Producer of Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen, the Peabody Award-winning radio show and podcast. Her work has appeared on Radiolab, Marketplace, Weekend America, Musicians Radio, and Minnesota Public Radio. At WNYC, she produced specials on food, music, and current affairs; worked on documentaries about immigration, freedom of speech, and 9/11; and filed arts stories in the newsroom. Jocelyn produced podcasts for 10 years at The New York Times, as well as shows for The Mash-Up Americans and APM, Hello Sunshine, and STAT for Boston Globe Media. She produced audiobooks at Simon & Schuster, and worked at ABC Radio in satellite services. Jocelyn has been teaching sound production in the Film/TV Department at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts for two decades, and is a founding member of Feet In Two Worlds, an award winning journalism project about immigrant communities in the U.S. At PRX, she has led production on shows for partners such as TED, NOVA, Google, CBS, Templeton Foundation, Mellon Foundation, Patagonia, Religion of Sports, Ben & Jerry, Chicago Public Library, Harvard Business School, Stanford GSB, and more.

Genevieve Sponsler
Lead Senior Producer & Senior Director

Genevieve Sponsler is the Lead Senior Producer & Senior Director at PRX Productions. At PRX, she has led productions for Smithsonian magazine, New York Botanical Garden, Quanta magazine, the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission (including Ambie-nominated And Nothing Less), John Templeton Foundation (Ambie-nominated How God Works), Fidelity National Financial, Cambridge Associates, Ragamala Dance Company, and more. A writer, producer, editor, and director, Genevieve is a versatile leader who can work across different styles of podcasts, from multi-voice narratives to single-voice personal stories. She has worked at PRX since 2007, and understands how podcast and broadcast can work together, and how to create successful shows for both. Genevieve also runs PRX Remix, PRX’s SiriusXM and broadcast service that features podcasts and documentaries.

Outside of PRX, Genevieve worked as a live-theater producer for The Moth’s StorySLAMs in Boston for five years. In 2017, she designed the first podcast course at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Communications and taught it for six years. She also programs shows for WCNY Community FM, where she voices promos and underwriting spots.

She started her career writing event reviews as an intern for Washingtonpost.com’s CityGuide, gathered sound on Capitol Hill for Talk Radio News Service, and was a production assistant for Making the Band 3.

Pedro Rafael Rosado
Senior Audio Engineer

Pedro Rafael Rosado is an audio engineer, producer and editor who previously plied his trade at The New York Times.

The life of a singer/songwriter, record producer and recording engineer in New York City wasn’t enough for him so he gave that all up for the glamorous world of — newspapers!

After serving a few years on the print side at The New York Times, Pedro was a key member of the team that developed and produced the massive podcast hit The Daily and was the lead producer and engineer on several of NYT’s most popular podcasts, including Popcast and The Book Review Podcast.

To show he had nothing but love for the moving image, Pedro also served as a video editor, voiceover artist, technical director and operations manager for the The New York Times video desk.

In addition to serving as co-founder and president, Pedro is also the content director of the boutique media studio HeadStepper Media where he helps make audio and visual content for smaller, minority-owned news organizations that may not have access to professional media talent.

In his spare time he co-hosts the podcasts “About Men Radio” and “POP | TECH | JAM”.

Sandra Lopez-Monsalve
Audio Engineer and Producer

Sandra Lopez-Monsalve is an award winning bilingual producer and audio engineer. She fell in love with radio while cutting actual tape for a local station in her native Bogota (Colombia) in the late 90s. Since then, Sandra has produced and engineered stories for news programs, magazine shows, and podcasts for a variety of media outlets. Her work has been presented on over 250 radio stations nationwide (including KCRW, WNYC, WBEZ), national magazines (The Atlantic, Slate), and television (PBS, CUNY TV). Currently, Sandra is creating content for the Production Unit at PRX, before that she was the technical director and a producer for the Peabody Award-winning show Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen. Sandra loves history, radio dramas, movies, and black cats.

Morgan Flannery

Producer

Morgan Flannery is a Producer at PRX Productions, where she gets to help shape and edit stories, sound design, and sit in on some pretty amazing interviews. A graduate of Sound Audio Engineering Institute in Los Angeles, Morgan’s first venture into podcasting was as a production assistant for PRI/PRX's Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen. Since then, she’s worked with Slate, The New Yorker and WNYC, honing her skills and fine tuning audio along the way.

Since joining PRX Productions in 2021, Morgan has been proud to work on a series of acclaimed shows, ranging from CBS' Unsung Science with David Pogue to TED's How To Be a Better Human with Chris Duffy. Her favorite part of the job is listening to people get really excited to talk about their favorite niche interest and sharing that with the world.

In her off time, you can usually find Morgan going down a research rabbit hole about sheets, learning about a new and shocking fact that everyone else has known about for a long time, or finally learning how to sew.

Courtney Fleurantin

Project Manager and Producer

Courtney Fleurantin is an award-winning producer, podcaster, speaker, voice actor and entrepreneur. He has also excelled as a project manager for multiple podcasts and grant-funded projects, including the PRX Big Questions Project, which encompasses "Moral Repair," "Rock That Doesn't Roll," "Mother Is A Question" and "Second Sunday." With a diverse portfolio, Courtney has also produced for various shows for prominent organizations such as Fidelity National Financial, the New York Botanical Garden, the John Templeton Foundation and Cambridge Associates.

Courtney helps passionate people create podcast shows that leave a lasting impact on the world. A few fun facts: “I've helped send podcasts to space and enjoy discussing basketball, food, and Web 3!”

Emmanuel Desarme

Coordinating Producer

Emmanuel Desarme joined our team as an Associate Producer for the Big Question’s Project which is sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation. With over a decade of experience in the corporate world, he joined PRX because he has an innate love for the art of storytelling.

Emmanuel has provided production support on all four shows of the Big Question’s Project which include Ambie Nominated shows such as Moral Repair: A Black Exploration of Tech and Second Sunday, as well as, Rock That Doesn’t Roll and Mother is a Question. He also produced and co-wrote an audio documentary on these shows entitled the Big Journey.

Through his time with us, we have seen his role continue to grow and develop. Emmanuel has done production work for a variety of other shows, from being the lead producer on episodes of Built, to even aiding with voiceover for the award-winning show Monumental. He enjoys taking on new challenges and looks forward to the daily experience of increasing his knowledge about the evolving audio industry.

Mark Pagán

Producer

Mark Pagán is an award-winning filmmaker, podcast producer, and educator. His work and performances have been shown at festivals and shows worldwide including Slamdance Film Festival, Maryland Film Festival, Spoke's Family Ghosts, PRX, WNYC, Latino USA, Colorado Public Radio's On Something, North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival, Charleston Comedy Festival, RISK!, The Moth, and Story Collider. Mark is currently producing TEDx SHORTS. He's also the host and producer of the award-winning podcast, Other Men Need Help, a playful docu-essay show dissecting masculine insecurities, which is a fancy way of saying it's like Sesame Street about men.

Ian Coss

Producer

Ian Coss is a creator of acclaimed podcasts. His 9-part documentary “The Big Dig” was honored with a Peabody Award and named one of the best podcasts of 2023 by the New Yorker and Vulture, while spending over six weeks in the Top 100 shows on Apple Podcasts. Previously, his audio memoir "Forever is a Long Time" was named one of the best podcasts of 2021 by The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Apple Podcasts.

As a founding member of PRX Productions, he has produced and scored several limited series with the Radiotopia network — Ways of Hearing, The Great God of Depression, Over the Road, Blind Guy Travels and My Mother Made Me — and launched the long-running Antiques Roadshow podcast, Detours. His work has appeared on Snap Judgement and 99 Percent Invisible; it has been featured at the Tribeca Film Festival, and recognized with multiple Edward R. Murrow Awards as well as a nomination for ‘Podcast of the Year’ from the Podcast Academy.

Isabel Hibbard

Producer

Isabel Hibbard has worked as a producer with the PRX Production Unit since its 2020 founding. She’s launched podcasts in collaboration with WGBH, including Nova Now and Detours, and co-produced Peabody Award-winning podcast The Big Dig, a nine-part series on the most expensive highway infrastructure project in US history from GBH News.

Isabel is also a producer for Unseen Upside: Investments Beyond Their Returns by Cambridge Associates, a 2024 recipient of the International Women’s Podcast Award for Moment of Visionary Leadership and a Best Branded Podcast honoree for the 28th Annual Webby Awards.

Outside of production work, Isabel has taught classes on podcasting for Cambridge Community Television and co-facilitated the PRX Podcast Garage's orientation to podcasting. Before joining PRX, Isabel was a Spanish <> English interpreter and translator. During her internship at the PRX Podcast Garage in Boston, she created the Listening to Language event series to highlight multilingual media makers and Language Justice in podcasting.

Ari Daniel

Editor

Ari Daniel has edited a range of podcasts for PRX on topics from Margaret Mead’s complicated legacy in Samoa to a Black exploration of technology and how to heal in our digital world. Ari is an independent science reporter who contributes regularly to NPR among other outlets.

Ari has always been drawn to science and the natural world. As a graduate student, he trained gray seal pups (Halichoerus grypus) for his Master’s degree in animal behavior at the University of St. Andrews, and helped tag wild Norwegian killer whales (Orcinus orca) for his Ph.D. in biological oceanography at MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. For more than a decade, as a science reporter and multimedia producer, Ari has interviewed a species he’s better equipped to understand — Homo sapiens.

Over the years, Ari has reported across six continents on science topics ranging from astronomy to zooxanthellae. His radio pieces have aired on NPR, The World, Radiolab, Here & Now, and Living on Earth.

Ari formerly worked as a reporter for NPR’s Science desk where he covered global health and development. Before that, he was the Senior Digital Producer at NOVA where he helped oversee the production of the show’s digital video content. He is a co-recipient of the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Gold Award for his radio stories on glaciers and climate change in Greenland and Iceland.

In the fifth grade, Ari won the “Most Contagious Smile” award.