Connie Walker is an investigative reporter and former host of Missing & Murdered, from CBC Podcasts and CBC News. She recently joined Gimlet Media, based in New York City and is developing a new podcast that will be out later this year. Connie is a member of the Okanese First Nation in Saskatchewan. @connie_walker

Anna Maria Tremonti is the host of the new CBC podcast More – a series of conversations with high-profile guests and rising stars from a variety of fields. The podcast represents a change, and a progression toward more immersive conversations following her success hosting the CBC Radio’s The Current, the flagship current affairs program she helped create. Prior to that Tremonti was a co-host of CBC Television’s investigative program the fifth estate and before that she was covering war, disaster, politics and society as a foreign correspondent for CBC’s The National, with postings in Berlin, London, Jerusalem and Washington. @amtremonti

Vicky Mochama is a writer and podcast host, and is a principal with Vocal Fry Studios. She has written for the Toronto Star, StarMetro, VICE, Globe and Mail, and Hazlitt. She was the host of Safe Space and former co-host of Canadaland Commons. She also hosts No Little Plans, a podcast about the UN Sustainable Development Goals; the project is a Vocal Fry Studios production in partnership with Community Foundations of Canada and Strategic Content Labs. She is also the Culture and Society editor at The Conversation Canada. @vmochama

David P. Herle is principal partner with The Gandalf Group. David is a public affairs and corporate strategist, helping CEOs manage crises, union leaders shape their public appeals and directing winning campaigns for both prime ministers and premiers. David has appeared on CBC’s The National, where he provided biweekly commentary on “The Insiders” panel from 2008 to 2017 and during the 2019 federal election. The Herle Burly was created as a platform for honest talk and respectful debate, in the midst of something fun and rambunctious. Starting in 2017, guests such as David Axelrod, Robbie Robertson, Thomas Frank and George Will have sparred with David about politics and culture. @TheHerleBurly

Elamin Abdelmahmoud is a news curation editor with BuzzFeed News, and writer of Incoming, the BuzzFeed News daily morning newsletter. He is also a co-host of Party Lines from CBC Podcasts and CBC News, a columnist for CBC Radio and a frequent culture and politics commentator for CBC News. His work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, Maclean’s Magazine and Chatelaine. His debut collection of essays, Son of Elsewhere, will be available fall 2020. @elamin88