The Near West Side

About the Creators

Alex Chambers, Executive Producer
Alex is a writer, educator, and radio producer in Bloomington, Indiana. He produces and hosts WFIU’s Inner States, a weekly arts and culture show; he produced the Hoosier Young Farmers Podcast; and he teaches podcasting at the Indiana University Media School. His PhD dissertation, Climate Violence and the Poetics of Refuge, and his book of poems, Binding: A Preparation, are both about how we make it through, together

Allison Quantz, Executive Editor
Allison is a radio and podcast producer and consultant living in Bloomington, Indiana. She is senior producer at Virginia Humanities’ radio show and podcast, With Good Reason. She launched The Briefing from SiriusXM in 2015 and produced it until late 2017. In 2018 she helped launch and began producing The Growing Edge podcast with Carrie Newcomer and Parker Palmer. Her work has been heard on BackStory with the American History Guys, WFIU, Virginia Public Radio, Word of Mouth, Distillations and PRX Remix.

Ileana Haberman, Artist
Ileana Haberman is an embroidery and comic artist living in Bloomington, IN, most interested in explorations of queerness, body, grief, and self. Many of her inspirations hit while hiking the hills of Southern Indiana with her young dog, Willow.

Music
The theme song is "Soft Skin" from Elastic by Amy O. Additional music by airport people, Amy O from her album Elastic, Backward Collective and Last Ledges, and Ramón Monrás-Sender.