Emily Silverman, MD | Creator + Host

Emily is an internal-medicine physician, Assistant Volunteer Professor of Medicine at UCSF, and creator of The Nocturnists, an award-winning medical storytelling program that has uplifted the voices of more than 450 clinicians since 2016 through its podcast and sold-out live performances. Her work has been supported by a MacDowell fellowship and published in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Virginia Quarterly Review, JAMA, CHEST, and McSweeney’s. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and daughter. 

Alison Block, MD | Executive Producer | Co-creator + Host, Post-Roe America

Ali practices family medicine in Pawtucket, RI. A longtime appreciator of the arts, she has a special passion for using storytelling to illuminate important topics in healthcare. In addition to her work with The Nocturnists, she executive produced Dr. Feelgood, a documentary film which explores the ethical dilemma of opiate prescriptions. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time in the outdoors with her husband and children.

Ashley Pettit | Program Manager

Ashley is a Project Manager, Producer, and Editor whose experience spans a range of creative fields, including theatre, video, and sound design. Notably, they've worked with Other Theatre Company to amplify marginalized voices and played a key role in development of Out of Bounds, a theatre/workshop series with Working Group Theatre to address school bullying. Ashley was also a Production Assistant on the Chicago tour stops of Hamilton and Aladdin.

Molly Rose-Williams | Head of Story Development

Molly is a dance-maker, educator, director, writer, and community arts organizer. She has presented her work throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, Vermont, and Maine, and internationally in Mexico and Belgium. She is the cofounder and producer of Show & Tell, a multi-disciplinary performance salon, and is passionate about organizing platforms for community research of the creative process. She teaches acrobatics, cooking, and science, and writes about dance.

Sam Osborn | Producer + Editor

Sam is a nonfiction filmmaker and editor of Mexican-American descent. He's directed short films and series for a handful of platforms, along with one feature-length film, Universe, which was awarded Best Music Documentary by the International Documentary Awards in 2021. He's currently working on his second film, Going Varsity in Mariachi, about competitive high school mariachi teams along the US-Mexico border. Producing and editing with The Nocturnists is his first exciting step into the podcasting medium.

Kristin Moe | Story Producer

Kristin (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist, creative coach and educator. Her storytelling work has spanned journalism, audio documentary, teaching, community-based theater and curating intimate, live events. In her creative life she explores human-ecological entanglements, somatic healing and repair – in search of embodied modes of storytelling that point the way toward collective change. She likes to walk in the woods and is learning to play the guitar very, very slowly.

Ashley McMullen, MD | Host + Producer

Black Voices in Healthcare

Ashley is a native of Houston, TX who ventured west to complete her residency training in internal medicine at UCSF, where she served as chief resident. Currently she is a primary care physician at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. Ashley is interested in exploring the role of narrative medicine in primary care education and improving healthcare across differences. Her other interests include finding ways to stay warm in her poorly insulated apartment, checking out vintage bookstores, and biking the flat parts of the city.

Kimberly Manning, MD | Host + Executive Producer

Black Voices in Healthcare

Originally from Los Angeles, Kimberly is a physician at Grady Memorial Hospital, and award-winning medical educator at Emory University School of Medicine. Her work has been published in JAMA, Academic Medicine, and the Annals of Internal Medicine, and she authors a blog that was named in 2010 by ‘O’ Magazine as one of “four top medical blogs you should read. She has also contributed to Fox 5 Good Day Atlanta, Weekend Headline News, and CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360. She is a married mother of two young sons and applies her experience as a mother and wife to all that she does.

Will Bynum, MD | Co-Producer

Shame in Medicine

Will is a Raleigh-based family medicine physician practicing and teaching at Duke University School of Medicine where he is a residency program director and advisor to the Medical Student Wellness Committee. Will is completing his PhD in Health Professions Education at Maastricht University and researches the role of shame in medical education. He has an amazing wife Carson and boys Mason and Brady, and his interests include coffee, his daily cookie, writing, music, and not sleeping much. He created The Shame Conversation, a resource hub to advance discussion and awareness of shame in medicine.

Luna Dolezal, PhD | Co-Producer

Shame in Medicine

Luna is an academic philosopher based at the University of Exeter. Her research is primarily about understanding lived experience, emotion and embodiment and how these intersect with social, political and institutional frameworks. Luna is a passionate shame researcher and currently runs a research project called Shame and Medicine, which looks at the role of shame in health and medicine. Luna is also a yoga teacher and mum to Theo.

Yosef Munro | Original Theme Composer

Yosef grew up in Pittsburgh, PA, and started playing piano when he was five years old. After majoring in music at McGill University in Montreal, he moved to NYC, played in a few bands, worked in a bunch of restaurants, and crash-coursed his way into music production and sound design. Currently he’s working on several ads, a TV series, and his first solo EP.

Rebecca Groves | Producer & Former Chief Operating Officer

Rebecca comes to medical storytelling from the world of the performing and visual arts. Her career has led her from California to New York to Germany and back, as Head Dramaturg at Ballett Frankfurt, Executive Director of the Forsythe Foundation, and Assistant Curator at the Kramlich Collection. Rebecca’s writing on performance has been published by Palgrave McMillan, the Institute of Contemporary Arts Boston, Dance Research Journal, and Modern Drama. She is happiest on two wheels or in the water, especially on family adventures with her wife and young daughter.