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April Fulton is a former editor with NPR's Science Desk and a contributor to The Salt, NPR's Food Blog.

Sarah Karp is a reporter at WBEZ. A former reporter for Catalyst-Chicago, the Chicago Reporterand the Daily Southtown, Karp has covered education, and children and family issues for more than 15 years. She is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism. She has won five Education Writers Association awards, three Society of Professional Journalism awards and the 2005 Sidney Hillman Award. She is a native of Chicago.

Carl Sonny Leyland was born & raised in the South of England. As a child he developed a love for various styles of vintage music that he heard on his father's LP records. At age 15 he discovered blues & boogie woogie & began to make his own music on the piano & guitar. Money earned from gigs was generally spent at the local record shop where Leyland acquired the beginnings of what would become an extensive library of recordings including Blues, Hillbilly, Jazz , Rockabilly & 50s rock & roll. Leyland came to the US in 1988 settling in New Orleans. He relocated to California in 1997, where he has remained since. A professional musician by trade, Carl was inducted into the Boogie Woogie Hall of Fame in 2010. He spends his free time collecting records & trying to transmute base metal into gold, so far unsuccessfully…

KCBX In Concert co-host Craig Russell feels blessed to work with his many brilliant and wonderful students at Cal Poly—where he has taught since 1982. Here on the Central Coast, Craig collaborates regularly with the San Luis Obispo Symphony and SLO Youth Symphony.

Rick Mathews, host of Freedom Jazz Dance, has been hosting jazz and radio programs on KCBX since 1978, when the founding managers of the station allowed Rick to begin producing ‘Jazz Toward The One’, a late-night eclectic jazz show (running 1978-1999). That show, like Freedom Jazz Dance, did not show much respect for arbitrary genre barriers. Rick is more interested in the spirit that good music shares, rather than the exclusion of particular styles or cultural backgrounds. In addition to ‘Toward The One’ and 'Freedom Jazz Dance', Rick began producing ’Night Train’, KCBX's Saturday night R&B show in 1983, with several KCBX DJs, at a time when R&B, Soul and Funk Music was sadly absent from the airwaves.

Steve V, as he calls himself on air, is co-host of Pacific Standard Time, which explores the Great American Songbook. Steve has a great love for the standards, and has been known to sing some of them himself from time to time. Steve also loves beer and baking. He keeps bees and chickens, and helps his wife rescue and relocate rattlesnakes (and other serpents) in his spare time.

John Walsh hosts Pacific Standard Time, the KCBX show that features music from the Great American Songbook. John is a guy with a lot of interests -- from computers and teaching to gardening and cooking. And since 2015, the Great American Songbook has been somewhere near the top of his list of interests. He makes regular singing appearances with Cabaret805, a loose-knit group of singers from around SLO County who seek to create a popular Cabaret scene locally.

Beth Thornton was a freelance reporter for KCBX, and a contributor to Issues & Ideas from 2019 to 2024. She was a 2021 Data Fellow with the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, and was accepted by the Center to receive a 2024 California Health Equity Impact grant. Beth has contributed reporting to KQED's statewide radio show The California Report.

Jacob Goldstein is an NPR correspondent and co-host of the Planet Money podcast. He is the author of the book Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing.