Season THREE CORE TEAM

PHYLLIS FLETCHER (she/her)

Editor

Phyllis Fletcher, Co-Editor, oversaw the development and production of five episodes during season 3. She is the senior editor for APM Podcasts from American Public Media and is a decorated mentor and journalist. She began her career as a volunteer in a public radio pledge drive and her first radio story was about racism that happens on the phone. She has been recognized as a local, regional and national editor, and is president emerita of the Seattle Association of Black Journalists.

LAURA FLYNN (she/her)

Editor

Laura Flynn, Co-Editor, oversaw the development and production of five episodes during season 3. She is Producer for Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill. Previously, she was a producer for the podcast Politically Re-Active and radio shows Your Call and Making Contact. Flynn has reported for NPR member stations KALW, NSPR, and KUSP.

CEDRIC WILSON (he/him)

Lead Producer, Sound Designer

Cedric Wilson, Sound Designer, completed the audio design on nine season 3 episodes. LW&C’s Lead Producer, he is an audio engineer, musician, and producer. He graduated from The New School’s Media Studies (M.A.) program where he expanded his work in sound and added cultural studies to the mix.

MITZI MILLER (she/her)

Host

Mitzi Miller, Host, has been 70 Millioon’s narrator since season 1. She is a celebrated journalist, best-selling author, and veteran editor. After almost fifteen years in print media, in March 2015 she made a successful leap to television and film when she became Head of Development at Rainforest Entertainment. Before that, she served as the editor-in-chief of two of the country’s premier African-American magazines, EBONY and JET. She is the third individual and the only woman in history to have held both positions.

LAURA TILLMAN (she/her)

Staff Writer

Laura Tillman is a freelance journalist and the author of “The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts: Murder and Memory in an American City,” (Scribner, 2016). Her work has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Pacific Standard, The Wall Street Journal, Tin House, and Literary Hub, among other publications. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College and a BA in International Studies from Vassar College.

VIRGINIA LORA (she/her)

Managing Producer

Virginia Lora directs the day-to-day operations of producing 70 Million. LW&C’s Managing Producer, she is a bilingual radio producer and reporter, telling stories in English, Spanish. In another life, she conducted intake interviews with kids in immigration detention, and traveled to 20 U.S. cities collecting oral histories with StoryCorps. She graduated from Amherst College and trained in radio at the Transom Story Workshop.

SARAH MCCLURE (she/her)

Lead Fact Checker

Sarah McClure, Lead Fact Checker, has been the show’s fact checker since season 2. She is an investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker with experience in national and international reporting. In 2020, she published a year-long investigation into Amish sexual abuse in partnership with Cosmopolitan magazine and Type Investigations. She’s currently developing a documentary based on that reporting, and one about the U.S.-Mexico border. Her work has been featured in NPR’s All Things Considered, Politico, Katie Couric’s newsletter, New York Magazine, BBC Radio, The Center for Public Integrity, and others. She has worked in print, radio and documentary filmmaking at outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, Fusion Investigative, Univision, Center for Investigative Reporting, The Investigative Reporting Program, NPR’s Latino USA, Agence France-Presse, The New York Times and Type Investigations.

MICHELLE BAKER (she/her)

Photo Editor

Michelle Baker, Photo Editor, managed a distributed team of photographers around the country to capture images of all subjects for season 3. A recent graduate of the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno, she is a multimedia journalist proficient in video, audio and digital journalism. Her professional experience includes: Video creation (film, edit, direct, assist, produce); Audio Production (report, interview, audio recordings, tape syncing, mix audio for podcasts/news); Social Media Management; Adobe Suite (After Effects, Audition, Photoshop, Premiere); and Photography/Event Coverage.

KENIA SERRETTE (SHE/HER)

Design Director

Kenia D. Serrette, Design Director, has designed all visual identity assets for the show since launch. As digital creative director, she sets project goals and requirements, leads discovery and research phases, creates UX deliverables, collaborating on event design, brand strategy and good ol’ fashion print work. She graduated magna cum laude from the School of Visual Arts with a BFA in Graphic Design and continues to study and learn as the design world continues to grow and evolve.

JULEYKA LANTIGUA (she/her)

Creator, Executive Producer

Juleyka Lantigua, Creator/Executive Producer, has been leading the team from the start and has used continuous innovation to improve the quality of the podcast and expand its impact. She is the Founder/CEO of LWC, a Peabody-nominated and award-winning digital media studio whose mission is to support and amplify the work of creators from the margins in digital audio and film. She is a journalism veteran with 20 years of experience as a writer, reporter, editor, syndicated columnist, book scout, lecturer, book reviewer, professor and audio producer. She holds a Master in Print Journalism and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction. LWC produces original shows like Latina to Latina, 70 Million, Feeling My Flo and Birthful, and provides tailored consulting and production services for clients that include Marvel Entertainment, Macmillan Podcasts, the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and The Aspen Institute.

SEASON THREE REPORTERS

Sarah McClure

Sarah McClure (she/her) is an investigative journalist, with experience in national and international coverage. Over the years, she has reported for print, radio and documentary filmmaking at outlets such as Type Investigations, Cosmopolitan, The Wall Street Journal, Fusion Investigative, Univision, NPR, the Center for Investigative Reporting, and Agence France-Presse.

Renata Sago

Renata Sago (she/her) is an award-winning broadcast and photojournalist whose work has spanned a mix of topics; from the grassroots movement to restore voting rights to returning citizens in Florida to the lives of New York's iconic Black swing dancers. Sago's original storytelling has appeared in The New York Times, on NPR, and VICE. She is a proud native of Chicago's South Side and an alumna of Brown University.

Lisa Bartfai

Lisa Bartfai (she/her) is a freelance radio producer, translator, and media educator splitting her time between rural Maine and California. Her work explores the intersection of culture and politics and can be heard on NPR stations and podcasts all over the country. During her years in radio, she has come to specialize in reporting from prison and other underserved communities. Lisa is a proud 2016 Audio Academy graduate. For 70 Million, she goes to the Penobscot Nation's reservation in Maine to report on their special court for tribal members suffering from substance abuse.

Jude Joffe-Block

Jude Joffe-Block (she/her) is an Arizona-based journalist who has reported on immigration and border issues for over a decade for local and regional public radio audiences, NPR, The World, The Guardian and Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting. She was a visiting journalist at the Russell Sage Foundation and a former fellow with New America and the Logan Nonfiction Program.

Xander Adams

Xander Adams (they/them) is a queer/non-binary radio producer, sound designer, and public health reporter based in Louisiana. They grew up on the westbank in St. James Parish half a mile from the Mississippi river. In their reporting they focus on HIV, Hep C, and correctional health. Xander created the sound-art podcast Smash/Cut and has worked with MIT’s Undark, Night Vale Presents, Netflix, CBC, BBC, WHYY, and WWNO.

Mark Betancourt

Mark Betancourt (he/him) is a freelance reporter based in Washington, D.C. His work has appeared in print, radio and television, and often focuses on the ways in which large-scale systems fail or harm people living in poverty. His investigative reporting has been featured in High Country News, Reveal, The Detroit News, Vice and The Nation, on topics ranging from the massive overtaxation of homeowners in Detroit to the lack of mental health care for wildland firefighters. He also writes about science and technology for Air & Space and Eos. Follow Mark on Twitter.

Sonia Paul

Sonia Paul (she/her) is a freelance journalist and audio producer based in Oakland, California. Her stories have aired and been published in numerous outlets, including Studio 360, NPR, WIRED, The Atlantic, Harper's, and The New York Times. She previously lived and reported in Japan and India, and her work has been recognized and supported by the Association of Independents in Radio, Religion News Association, Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and International Women’s Media Foundation, among other organizations. Follow Sonia on Twitter.

Emily Schwing

Emily Schwing (she/her) is an award-winning broadcast journalist who has covered everything from public land management, to climate change to tribal sovereignty and clergy sex abuse. Schwing's has appeared in the New York Times and Scientific American. Her radio stories have aired on NPR, PRI, the CBC and Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting. She has spent many years reporting from some of the most hard-to-reach communities in the Far North. Schwing currently lives and works out of Alaska.

Valeria Fernández

Valeria Fernández (she/her) is an investigative independent journalist focused on amplifying voices of immigrant communities. She has produced documentaries for Discovery Spanish, CNN Español, and PBS. Additionally, she co-directed the award-winning documentary, “Two Americans,” which aired on Al Jazeera America and follows the plight of a 9-year-old girl fighting to stop her parents’ deportations under the reign of notorious Arizona sheriff, Joe Arpaio. Her reporting on abuses of incarcerated Central American youth in Mexico was published by PRI’s The World, and NPR’s Spanish-language podcast, Radio Ambulante. Her most recent work can be found in Latino USA, The Guardian, California Sunday Magazine, and the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting. She is a finalist for investigative reporting on the 2020 James Beard Award. In 2018, Heising-Simons Foundation honored Fernández with the American Mosaic Journalism Prize for her reporting on marginalized communities. She teaches bilingual journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University. Follow Valeria on Twitter.

Ruxandra Guidi

Ruxandra Guidi (she/her) has been telling nonfiction and news stories for almost two decades. Her reporting for public radio, magazines, and various multimedia outlets has taken her throughout the United States, the Caribbean, South and Central America, as well as Mexico and the U.S.-Mexico border region. Throughout her career, Guidi has collaborated extensively and across different media to produce in-depth magazine features, essays, and radio documentaries for the BBC World Service, BBC Mundo, The World, National Public Radio, Marketplace, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Orion Magazine, The Walrus Magazine, Guernica Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, National Geographic NewsWatch, The New York Times, The Guardian, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Atlantic, among others. She’s a native of Caracas, Venezuela and is currently based in Tucson, Arizona.

Pamela Kirkland

Pamela Kirkland (she/her) is an award-winning journalist based in Atlanta. She's covered breaking news events around the country ranging from hurricanes to elections and worked for The PBS NewsHour reporting on long-form stories about the opioid crisis, immigration, education, and more. She joined the NewsHour in 2015 from the Washington Post where she was part of the video team that produced the Emmy-nominated “N-word Project." She's traveled the country—covering three presidential campaigns, Congress, and the White House. She graduated with a degree in Political Science and Communication from the University of Pittsburgh.