Jad and Amil Abumrad

Jad Abumrad is a Peabody Award-winning broadcaster, composer, and storyteller, best known as the creator of Radiolab and More Perfect. His other acclaimed audio projects include Dolly Parton’s America, UnErased, The Vanishing of Harry Pace, and Fela Kuti: Fear No Man, which won a 2025 Peabody Award. Across his work, Abumrad has helped redefine the possibilities of narrative audio, blending journalism, music, and ideas in ways that are both intellectually ambitious and formally inventive. He is the recipient of three Peabody Awards and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2011. He is currently a Distinguished Research Professor at Vanderbilt University.