EDDIE ROBINSON | Host & Executive Producer

Eddie Robinson is a Mississippi native who began his media career while in the 10th grade in high school. After graduating from Prairie View A&M University with a Mechanical Engineering degree, he moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, where he landed a project manager gig for the 3M Corporation. Inspired by a 3M colleague, he moved to New York City where he picked up a Masters degree in Media Ecology from New York University. He spent much of his broadcast career in New York with outlets like CBS News, WFAN, New York 1 and WNYC. Eddie then moved back to Houston to host the first-ever sports talk radio show for the LGBTQ+ community on SiriusXM Satellite Radio. He later went on to focus his efforts on anchoring for Houston Public Media, as the local news voice for NPR's Morning Edition. He loves MMA, DJ'ing, live concerts and anything outdoors. Eddie's also a proud new dad of a baby son.

LAURA WALKER | Producer

Laura Walker is a California native who has always had a passion for telling untold stories. This passion led her to California State University — Fresno with hopes of becoming a news anchor. After encouragement from her mother and the support from her partner, Laura decided to move to Texas and attend Prairie View A&M, a Historically Black College/University. While completing her degree, she developed a love for production. This led her mentor at the university to select her to be the Assistant Director and Technical Director for the University Film and Video Associate Best Live Stream/Multi-Cam Award-winning show, The Death of Cliff Huxtable. She was then selected to serve as the Technical Director for a weeklong production, Prairie View A&M, Virtual Homecoming, and the Festival on the Hill virtual film festival. Laura graduated magna cum laude from Prairie View A&M with a degree in Communications. In the months after graduating, she was pleased to accept the position as Assistant Producer with Houston Public Media. She enjoys spoken-word poetry, writing for film and television, listening to podcasts, and spending time with family.

TODD HULSLANDER | Technical Director

Todd Hulslander is a Peabody Award winning producer/editor and Grammy nominated engineer. He has been "podcasting" since before "podcasting" was a thing, with his lifelong passion to tell stories with music and sound. While working for the Smithsonian, he helped create many nationally acclaimed series including Jazz Smithsonian with Lena Horne, Mississippi: River of Song with Ani Di Franco, Remembering Slavery, Jazz Singers with Al Jarreau, and Memphis: Cradle of Rock 'n' Soul with Cybill Shepherd. He has worked with NPR and has been a part of Houston Public Media family for over 20 years. His father marched with Martin Luther King Jr., attended Howard University in the 1950s and devoted much of his life to supporting racial justice. His mother worked with children in rural Kentucky and Mississippi and helped teach Todd to maintain an open mind and accept everyone equally.

MINCHO JACOB | Producer

Mincho Jacob is a radio producer, chef, and bassist. He spent a decade learning the craft of storytelling and radio production with Latino USA, the longest running national Latino news and cultural public radio program. Mincho is also a chef, focusing on learning and sharing the foodways of the Indigenous peoples of Texas, Guatemala and Mexico. He co-founded Franklin Barbecue and helped create an educational web series for barbecue enthusiasts with KLRU-Austin PBS. It later became a syndicated television show on PBS: Barbecue with Franklin. He also had a brief cameo in the movie, Chef (don’t blink or you’ll miss it!). In his free time, he is learning his ancestral language, Mayan Q’eqchi’, gardening, and playing cumbia.