Melanie Yazzie

Melanie Yazzie is Dine/Navajo of the Salt Water Clan and Bitter Water Clan of the Dine/Navajo People of North Eastern Arizona. She is Professor of Art and Head of Printmaking at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Her works belong to many collections such as the Anchorage Museum of History & Art, the Art Museum of Missoula, the Australian National Gallery, the Institute of American Indian Arts, the Kennedy Museum of Art and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum. She has exhibited nationally and internationally in places such as Alaska, California, New Mexico, New York, Florida, New Zealand, France, Russia, Canada, Bulgaria, Portugal, Spain and Northern Ireland. She often takes part in collaborative art projects with indigenous artists from many different nations. She has taught at the institute of American Indian Arts, the College of Santa Fe, University of Arizona, and now at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

David Walsh

David Walsh is chief sports writer with The Sunday Times. He is a four-time Irish Sports Writer of the Year and also a four-time Sports Writer of the Year in the UK. In 2012 he was judged Journalist of the Year in the UK for his 13- year campaign to show that Lance Armstrong was not a true champion but an athlete who cheated. Walsh wrote three books about Armstrong, culminating in the international best seller Seven Deadly Sins which inspired the recently released motion picture, The Program, starring Ben Foster, Chris O'Dowd and Dustin Hoffman. Walsh lives with his family in Suffolk, England.

Family, Neighbors and Extraordinary Proof

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In this episode we travel to Chicago, the Navajo Nation in Arizona, and then end the hour on the sidelines of the Tour de France. A man struggles with his unruly neighbors, an artists shares memories of growing up on the Navajo Nation and a journalist exposes one of the greatest sports scandals of our time. Hosted by Meg Bowles. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media.

Shannon Cason attempts to find peace in a neighborhood disturbance.

Melanie Yazzi shares stories from her childhood on the Navajo Nation.

David Walsh goes against popular opinion to uncover one of the greatest sports scandals in recent history.

Michael VonAllmen & Ted Conover

A man vows to help his fellow ex-inmate, and a man pays a price for the tough attitude he develops as a corrections officer. 

Extraordinary Proof

by David Walsh

David Walsh goes against popular opinion to uncover one of the greatest sports scandals in recent history.

Weaving Memory

by Melanie Yazzie

Melanie Yazzie shares stories from her childhood on the Navajo Nation.

Downstairs Neighbors

by Shannon Cason

Shannon Cason attempts to find peace in a neighborhood disturbance.

Hail Mary

Hail Mary is a Moth Global Community Alum living in Nairobi and working in the field of HIV prevention.

Gethwana Mahlase

Gethwana Mahlase is a nurse and currently works for an NGO she founded in 1995 — and works as a consultant for many other NGOs as well. Gethwana is currently writing a book on stories from grandmothers who lost all or almost all of their children at the peak of HIV.

Aubrey Edwards

Aubrey is a photographer, visual anthropologist and educator who lives with her family in New Orleans. She still loves wild things and has rehabilitated injured birds and then sets them free.

Colin Channer

Colin Channer was born in Kingston, Jamaica. He went to school there and in New York. His most recent book is a poetry collection, Providential, which Eileen Myles describes as "one of the most lucid and telling poetry books of this exact time." Colin is the father of two kids, Makonnen and Addis, and the emeritus director of a literature festival started with two friends. This former bass man for a Brooklyn reggae band has served as Newhouse Professor in Creative Writing at Wellesley College and Fannie Hurst Writer in Residence at Brandeis University. He does yoga, is slackly vegan, and gets quite Bobby Brown ("It's my prerogative") when asked about his love of curried goat.

Chris Gilbert

Chris Gilbert is a Louisiana expatriate by way of Texas who now lives in the Denver suburbs with his family. He's got three great kids, all who do their best to make him crazy. The coolest thing he gets to do is be their dad. His smoking hot wife is better than he deserves and he hopes she never figures that out. An aspiring peregrinator, chronic daydreamer, and aviation aficionado, Chris is a trial lawyer who gets a lot of joy when his work makes a positive difference for his clients, although he often feels like he's just tilting at windmills.

The Importance of the Silent Voice

by Gethwana Mahlase

A career woman takes a leap of faith. 

The Power of Love

by Hail Mary

A woman confronts her fears by sharing a personal truth. 

Hail Mary & Gethwana Mahlase

This week we wanted to give our attention and recognize an important date: World AIDs Day, which took place on December 1st. Today we’ll focus on two stories that were shared at our first ever Mainstage show in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Adam Ruben

Adam is a writer, comedian, and molecular biologist. He hosts "Outrageous Acts of Science" on the Science Channel, and he’s the author of two books: Surviving Your Stupid, Stupid Decision to Go to Grad School, and a new book: Pinball Wizards:  Jackpots, Drains, and My Descent into the Cult of the Silver Ball.

Pierre Epstein

Pierre is an actor, who has been in over 15 Broadway plays, and films like Indecent Proposal and Splash!

Ed McCarthy

Ed McCarthy told this story a few months after his mom passed away. Following in his mom's tradition, some of those rescued ornaments are still hung on the family's Christmas tree each year. Currently, Ed lives in Los Angeles where he is a writer and development executive. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from American University. He loves playing tennis and sampling appletinis.

Katie Fales

Katie grew up ranching in western Colorado and since then has tried her hand as a barista, grant manager, cheese maker, teacher and doula.

Catherine McCarthy

Catherine McCarthy is the Manager of the Moth's Education Program. When she's not listening to high schoolers tell stories, she can be found singing with her band Em & The Fates in New York City. She's also pursuing her Masters in Social Work at Fordham University.