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Gene Demby is the co-host and correspondent for NPR's Code Switch team.

Brother “BJ” Lewis, originally from Jackson, Mississippi, grew up listening to the Blues and Old School Classics. He began his radio broadcasting career while stationed with the U.S. Army in El Paso, Texas, at the jazz radio station KXCR in 1989, where he earned his FCC Third Class Radio Broadcasting license. Prior to this, he owned and operated Mobile Disco Systems while stationed with the U.S. Army in Europe and Texas. He later relocated to Huntsville to work at Broadcast One, W-E-U-P 1600 AM/92.1 FM, before joining WJAB 90.9. Additionally, he had a brief stint at Radio Station WQFX 1130 AM/98.7 FM in Biloxi, Mississippi. Lewis has three children and two granddaughters.

Thomas Lu (he/him) is a producer for NPR's science podcast, Short Wave. The podcast is a perfect equation of curiosity, nerdiness and everyday discoveries.

Chris Benderev is a founding producer of and also reports stories for NPR's documentary-style podcast, Embedded. He's driven into coal mines, watched as a town had to shutter its only public school after 100 years in operation, and, recently, he's followed the survivors of a mass shooting for two years to understand what happens after they fade from the news. He's also investigated the pseudoscience behind a national chain of autism treatment facilities. As a producer, he's made stories about ISIS, voting rights and Donald Trump's business history. Earlier in his career, he was a producer at NPR's Weekend Edition, Morning Edition, Hidden Brain and the TED Radio Hour.

John Morrison is a writer, DJ, and sample-flipper from Philadelphia. As a writer, his work has appeared in NPR Music, Bandcamp Daily, Jazz Tokyo, Grammy.com, and more. He is also the host of Culture Cypher Radio, a hip-hop radio show on NPR member station WXPN.

Krishnadev Calamur is NPR's deputy Washington editor. In this role, he helps oversee planning of the Washington desk's news coverage. He also edits NPR's Supreme Court coverage. Previously, Calamur was an editor and staff writer at The Atlantic. This is his second stint at NPR, having previously worked on NPR's website from 2008-15. Calamur received an M.A. in journalism from the University of Missouri.