BIOS
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Lauren Schiller is an author, award-winning producer/host, and live event moderator. Her radio program and podcast, Inflection Point was one of the first to document how women build power and lead change and quickly went on to be nationally syndicated as a weekly show on stations across the country. She won a Gracie Award from the Alliance for Women in Media and the show is now housed in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. Before that, Lauren co-founded Unfiltered Productions, where she co-produced, and co-hosted one of the first female-led podcasts, The Lady Brain Show which she also syndicated on television and radio. Her book,It’s a Good Day to Change the World: Inspiration and Advice for a Feminist Future is a guide to achieving an equal, just, and joy-filled world. Her forthcoming audio documentary seriesRelativity, about family myths and legends which she produces and hosts with her brother, has appeared at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, and the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Wood Street Galleries. Lauren is also a strategist and producer forLet It Ripple, founded by artist and filmmaker Tiffany Shlain.Lauren moderates live events at venues including City Arts & Lectures, The Commonwealth Club, Cal Performances, and JCCSF. She was Executive Producer of Audio for Salon Media; and a guest host for The Conversation on the BBC World Service. Her conversations elicit surprising stories and reveal insightful truths about the world we live in, how we got here, and where we go next. Throughout her career Lauren has turned complex information into easy-to-understand ideas that motivate readers and listeners to action.Before pivoting to making media, Lauren got her start in advertising, making commercials for the world’s best brands and was one of the first female partners in the San Francisco ad agency she led. Another fun fact: she was the first girl to join the Boys Club in the Pittsburgh, PA neighborhood where she grew up, before moving to Northern California.
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Michael I Schiller has been making cool media stuff like magazines, movies, animation and radio for decades. He knows how to tell a good story, that’s why humans gave him an Emmy and two dozen other broadcast journalism awards. Before he did computer things with Pro Tools and Avid Media Composer he wrote stories with words and took pictures with film for small indy publications like Heeb Magazine and big fancy ones like Dwell and Inside Kung Fu. It all started around 24 years ago. Early in the 21st century he got arrested making a movie for HBO about a rapper and flute player named Andre 3000 and sued the City of New York and won 18 million dollars for the ACLU and some protestors. Schiller started working for The Center for Investigative Reporting in 2013 and that’s how he helped get a guy out of prison and reconnect a lady with her mom who had been a Jane Doe unidentified dead body for 45 years. Michael worked on the first pilot for the PRX distributed Reveal radio show and then he worked on that show for 10 more years and was the creative director for the show and now Reveal is big and famous on every public radio station with all the fancy awards and over 100 million lifetime downloads. He still works on that show and he’s also making a new radio show with his sister, it’s called Relativity, so that will be famous and everyone will love that too.